The Jolly Balloon Man
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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
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.
- Timestream Navigator Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Jolly Balloon Man, whatever its commander.
The Jolly Balloon Man price history
The Duskmourn: House of Horror #219 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 7, 2026 | $0.87 | $1.10 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.87 | $1.08 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.89 | $1.08 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $0.89 | $1.09 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.88 | $1.09 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.91 | $1.08 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.90 | $1.07 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $0.92 | $1.07 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.93 | $1.07 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.95 | $1.06 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.94 | $1.06 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.92 | $1.07 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.97 | $1.09 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.97 | $1.10 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $1.00 | $1.10 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $1.04 | $1.10 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.99 | $1.10 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.97 | $1.10 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.98 | $1.10 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.99 | $1.09 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $1.04 | $1.03 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $1.06 | $1.03 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $1.04 | $1.03 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.96 | $1.01 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.95 | $1.01 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.97 | $1.01 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $1.10 | $1.01 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $1.11 | $1.01 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $1.14 | $0.98 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $1.17 | $0.99 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $1.18 | $0.99 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $1.21 | $0.99 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $1.20 | $0.94 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $1.08 | $0.94 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $1.06 | $0.94 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
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Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
- Normal
- $0.87
- Foil
- $1.10
Promo
Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Normal
- $0.55
- Foil
- $0.76
Promo
Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Foil
- $3.25
Inverted
- Normal
- $0.93
- Foil
- $3.58
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. 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.
