Bill the Pony
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
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.
Combos with Bill the Pony
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Eldrazi Displacer Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite Food tokens
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite blinking of most creatures
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Monk Gyatso Academy Manufactor Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite Food tokens
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Emiel the Blessed Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite Food tokens
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Ygra, Eater of All Camellia, the Seedmiser Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Camellia, the Seedmiser Tippy-Toe, Terrific Partner Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature tokens
- Samwise Gamgee Academy Manufactor Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Samwise Gamgee Phyrexian Altar Rakdos, Lord of Riots Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Samwise Gamgee Phyrexian Altar Animar, Soul of Elements Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-06-16
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.
- 2024-11-08
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
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
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- 2024-11-08
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Bill the Pony, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sam, Loyal Attendant | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Abzan 1 deck
Bill the Pony price history
The The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #3 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.36 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.35 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.17 | $0.35 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.15 | $0.36 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.36 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.35 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.14 | $0.35 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.12 | $0.36 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.37 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $0.14 | $0.37 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.38 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.15 | $0.38 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.38 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.38 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.39 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.39 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.39 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.39 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.38 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.38 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.37 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.19 | $0.37 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.37 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.19 | $0.38 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.40 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.19 | $0.40 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.40 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.42 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Bill the Pony
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Showcase
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Normal
- $0.74
- Foil
- $2.27
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Normal
- $0.18
- Foil
- $0.36
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bill the Pony. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
