How to build a The Jolly Balloon Man Commander deck in MTG

The Funny Balloon Man is a legendary creature introduced in 1960 Magic: The Gathering's Commander format. This Boros Commander (Red/White) is all about copying your creatures and taking advantage of their various enters the battlefield and death triggers.

The Funny Balloon Man plays a bit like a blinking deck, slowly building an advantage until you're ready to win the game. With a Jolly Balloon Man deck, you draw a lot of cards and create a lot of creature tokens. If you like this playstyle in your Commander deck, then The Happy Balloon Man is the Commander for you.

Decklist

The decklist consists of 37 creatures, three sorceries, six instants, 14 artifacts, five enchantments, And 34 countries. For the most part, creatures and lands are all you need in the deck, with the rest of the cards serving as support for them.

Key cards

The funny balloon man

The commander of the deck, The funny balloon man is a key part of what sets the deck apart. For just one mana, you can create a token of any creature that you control (but as a 1/1 with flying). There are several creatures you can copy that untap Funny Balloon Man, allowing you to use the effect for as much mana as you have.

Since the funny balloon man is in a hurry, you can use its effect the same turn it comes into play. You can copy any creature, not just non-legendary. While copying a legend will cause it to die instantly due to the legend rule, you are still taking advantage of its enter the battlefield trigger or, more importantly, its death trigger.

Breeding pigeon hawk

Breeding pigeon hawk is the most consistent way to store the tokens you generate with Jolly Balloon Man. When you populate, you create a copy of a creature token, namely The Jolly Balloon Man token must be sacrificed, No copies of the token. This means that the token created by Nesting Dovehawk remains on the battlefield at the end of the step.

Nesting Dovehawk is a way to double the effects you use with Jolly Balloon Man. The helps you draw a lot of cards and establish a lasting presence on the board. Nested Dovehawk's stats also increase as more creature tokens are added, making it a powerful attack and defense creature later in the game.

Worm coil motor

Worm coil motor is one of the best cards you can copy with Jolly Balloon Man. While a 1/1 token won't do much, It still creates the two 3/3 tokens for his sacrifice (one with deathtouch and one with lifelink).

Since nothing will happen to the original wormcoil engine, you can do this Keep copying it to craft more Phyrexian Worm Tokens. Combined with other burn damage cards, this can get out of hand if your opponents don't care about the original Wurmcoil engine.

Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier

The best card when combined with your commander, Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier, can turn Funny Balloon Man copying one creature into copying all of your creatures as long as you have two mana to pay. This gives you a lot of triggers to work with and additional tokens that can be enough to deal deadly damage.

Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier will cause a lot of tokens to be created It's especially strong on cards that deal burn damage when a creature enters the battlefield. The effect applies to any ability that targets it, setting you up for infinite combos.

When the Merry Balloon Man, Agrus Kos, the Priest of Urabrask, and the Village Hunchback are on the battlefield, you can create an infinite number of tokens. Use “Jolly Balloon Man” on Agrus Kos and activate it to apply the effect to all creatures you control to create token copies of them. Village Bell-Ringer will untap Funny Balloon Man and Priest of Urabrask will give you three mana so you can afford to repeat this combo endlessly.

Battle Celebrant

Battle Celebrant is a way to get a lot of extra combat steps, especially late in the game when you have enough mana to be able to use Jolly Balloon Man's effect multiple times per turn. You always want to try hardgains additional combat steps to deal constant damage.

There are many different ways to continue using Combat Celerant's effect. If Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is on the battlefield, you can fight endless battles without needing the mana by copying it by tapping Kiki-Jiki. Alternatively, Jolly Balloon Man is a way to have the combo in the command zone (although it's not infinite in this case).

How to play the deck

The funny balloon man is It's all about gaining an advantage and drawing cards until you reach your primary win conditions. Although Boros is incredibly bad at drawing cards because he copies permanents like Wall of Omens, spirited companionAnd Inspirational Overseerthis disadvantage is completely eliminated.

There are a lot of useful cards that Jolly Balloon Man can copy. Trumpeting Carnosaur lets you discover five to cast another spell for free; Atsushi, the burning sky enters the legend rule and then dies, allowing you to create three treasure tokens, and Karmic guide can bring any creature from your graveyard back into play.

One Disadvantage of the deck is that it is very weak to interactions. You Jolly Balloon Man's effect requires you to target a creatureMeaning Your opponents have the chance to use a removal spell before it dissolves. Additionally, Wiping the board will set you back drasticallyas it can be difficult to rebuild from nothing.

The The deck's main victory conditions are winning through combat, burning damage, or by using Approach of the Second Sun.. Because you can draw so many cards, casting Approach from the Second Sun is very easy and you immediately win the game when it resolves. Alternatively, There are many ways to create infinite battles and infinite creatures swing out. With burning creature cards entering play, your opponents' life totals will melt away, paving the way to victory.