Card
Bill the Pony
Mana cost {3}{W}
Legendary Creature — Horse 1/4
When Bill the Pony enters, create two Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice a Food: Until end of turn, target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 10 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · LTR · #3
- Cheapest printing
- €0.12
- EDHREC salt
- 0.19
- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- Food
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
10 known combos.
- Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Bill the Pony
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Samwise Gamgee + Bill the Pony + Academy Manufactor + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Bill the Pony + Emiel the Blessed + Krark-Clan Ironworks
Produces: Infinite blinking, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability. - 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost). - 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type. - 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards. - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Bill the Pony's last ability doesn't actually change any creature's power. It changes only the amount of combat damage it assigns. All other rules and effects that check power or toughness use the real values. For example, since having two creatures fight doesn't result in combat damage, an effect that causes the affected creature to fight another creature will still use its power to determine how much damage is dealt.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast