Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 1

Unlike most similar effects, Baeloth Barrityl's first ability doesn't cause a creature to be goaded until your next turn. Rather, it causes it to be goaded for as long as Baeloth Barrityl is on battlefield, has the ability, and has sufficient power.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 2

Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 3

If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 4

Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 5

If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 6

Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 7

If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer — ruling 8

An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

Creatures your opponents control with power less than Baeloth Barrityl's power are goaded. (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.) Whenever a goaded attacking or blocking creature dies, you create a Treasure token. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Complete guide

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer is a master of chaos who forces your opponents into a bloody spectacle for your own profit. By constantly goading weaker creatures and rewarding their demise with Treasure, he ensures the game remains fast-paced and lucrative for you.

The Power of the Show

Baeloth Barrityl's first ability is a continuous effect that constantly checks the power of all creatures your opponents control. As long as Baeloth is on the battlefield and his power is strictly greater than an opponent's creature, that creature is goaded. Unlike typical goad effects that last until your next turn, this aura of influence is dynamic; if Baeloth's power increases, more creatures are instantly forced into combat.

Earning Your Treasure

Whenever a creature that is currently goaded dies while attacking or blocking, Baeloth triggers to grant you a Treasure token. This ability doesn't care who controlled the creature or how it died, as long as it was in the 'attacking' or 'blocking' state and had the goaded status. This provides the mana ramp needed to keep Baeloth on the board or to cast even larger threats.

Choosing a Background

As a legendary creature with 'Choose a Background,' Baeloth can serve as one of two commanders if the second is a legendary Background enchantment. This allows you to expand your deck's color identity beyond red. Note that Baeloth and your Background are tracked separately for commander tax and commander damage, but effects that check if you control your commander are satisfied if either is on the battlefield.

Common Mistakes

Players often forget that Baeloth's goad effect is tied to his current power. if an opponent's creature receives a buff that makes its power equal to or greater than Baeloth's, it is no longer goaded and can attack you. Conversely, if Baeloth leaves the battlefield, the goad effect ends immediately, and creatures are free to attack whoever they wish during the next combat.

Interaction examples

Generating Wealth from Combat

Solemn Simulacrum

Treasure

If your opponent controls Solemn Simulacrum (2 power) while you control Baeloth Barrityl (2 power), it is not goaded. However, if you equip Baeloth to increase his power to 3, the Simulacrum becomes goaded. If it attacks another player and is destroyed by a blocker, Baeloth's second ability triggers, and you create one Treasure token.

Doubling the Box Office

Roaming Throne

Treasure

With Roaming Throne on the battlefield naming 'Elf' or 'Shaman,' Baeloth's triggered ability will trigger an additional time. When a goaded creature dies during combat, Baeloth triggers, the Throne causes it to trigger again, and you will create two Treasure tokens instead of one.

Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.

How it works : Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
Unlike most similar effects, Baeloth Barrityl's first ability doesn't cause a creature to be goaded until your next turn. Rather, it causes it to be goaded for as long as Baeloth Barrityl is on battlefield, has the ability, and has sufficient power.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#6June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
No other card is named in this ruling.
#7June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#8June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#9June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#10June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#11June 10, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.