Bill the Pony
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Horse
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 4
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #3 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.15 USD
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.
Bill the Pony has 2 printings, first in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023). EDHREC ranks it #8,933 among Commander cards. It appears most in Samwise Gamgee decks (1,408 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Bill the Pony most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Samwise Gamgee: 1,408 decks
- Shadowfax, Lord of Horses: 1,335 decks
- Thurid, Mare of Destiny: 967 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host: 492 decks
- Sierra, Nuka's Biggest Fan: 387 decks
- Apothecary White: 327 decks
- Jandor, Fortuned Traveler: 206 decks
- Astrid Peth: 159 decks
Often played with Bill the Pony
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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).
- : Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- : Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.