The Jolly Balloon Man card art

The Jolly Balloon Man

Legendary Creature — Human Clown MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Haste

1, T: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Combos with The Jolly Balloon Man

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Timestream Navigator Infinite
    • Infinite turns
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Intruder Alarm Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Village Bell-Ringer Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite untap of creatures you control
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Retreat to Coralhelm Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite tapped creature tokens with haste
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Coercive Recruiter Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor Restoration Angel Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor Zealous Conscripts Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ashnod's Altar Village Bell-Ringer Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite untap of creatures you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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.

  • 2024-09-20

    Except for the listed exceptions, the token created by The Jolly Balloon Man's ability copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.

  • 2024-09-20

    Any enters abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the copied creature will also work.

  • 2024-09-20

    If the copied creature has X in its mana cost, X is 0.

  • 2024-09-20

    If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the stated exceptions.

  • 2024-09-20

    If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that creature copied, with the stated exception.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with The Jolly Balloon Man in the command zone.

Decks led 2
Games played 4
Wins 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

Every version of The Jolly Balloon Man

7 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Jolly Balloon Man — a name search across every version, for 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.