Blue can also be helpful because it has plenty of good proliferate cards, and white got some good toxic creatures in Phyrexia: All Will Be One that could be helpful
1 Tough Cookie Tough Cookie is far more than a green artifact "bear." Its Food token is up-front value for any Bargain effect, most of all in Golgari decks, and Tough Cookie's final ability is a fine response to removal or lethal combat damage
The end result is pretty close to using a Through the Breach to put an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn into play, with Auratouched Mage being something like a 10/10, hasty, annihilating threat out of nowhere
Totally reasonable to think this will give an effective +5/+5 or more on attacks, which makes Baldin alone a 2-hit commander damage wincon
4 Nirkana Revenant A Double Thread Much like our next entry, some of the best cards in mono black beds have some strong ways to get around
It is also common to start activating tokens when you are in top deck mode, which can often be empty board mode