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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Boss's Chauffeur
Creature — Elf Citizen
This enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters equal to one plus the number of other creatures you control.
Alliance — Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on this.
When this dies, create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token for each +1/+1 counter on this. (Dying is being put into the graveyard from the battlefield.)
TitanWalls on
You’ll Float Too (Balloon Man)
1 year ago
I've been brewing a budget deck with this commander and can recommend a few cards that seem to be flying under the radar for this guy: Boss's Chauffeur, Custodi Soulbinders, and Jackdaw Savior. The first, when copied, can both be huge and generate tokens to feed Witty Roastmaster/Goblin Bombardment stuff or just pump up the next time you copy it while the original continually grows stronger. The second just has potential to be an absolutely gigantic flying kill threat, especially if any of your opponents are also generating creature tokens. The third one works because your flying token copies keep the mana cost property of the original (e.g. every time your copy of Ao, the Dawn Sky dies you can return a creature of CMC 4 or less to the battlefield). This can give a lot more leeway for declaring nontoken creatures as attackers or sacking them with Skullclamp, etc, knowing you can return them when your token copy dies at endstep.
SlangNTrees13 on
Whippits (Jolly Balloon Man Token Primer)
1 year ago
Hey TitanWalls, I really like Threefold Thunderhulk. That's a lot of tokens coming in with a copy ability or untap or two to take advantage of our damage pingers. Ancient Gold Dragon has also caught my eye if I decide to slot in anymore high mana cost baddies. For now I had stayed away from going heavy token creation and focusing on our own balloon tokens, as do you feel the 7 mana is still worth it when we could be dropping the likes of Battle Angels of Tyr or Charismatic Conqueror for much less? You have got the wheels turning though here to shift our focus towards damage pingers with copiable token creators. I do like it very much. I run Boss's Chauffeur in my Jetmir deck to great effect and the lower 5 mana cost is appealing despite its other creature dependent conditionality. If I do move to the token route it would definitely make sense. Custodi Soulbinders Cool one, but don't want to have to pay that 3 mana activation cost. For Jackdaw Savior I had to read your comment and sat for a second and then went, "Does it copy the mana value? Have I ever known this?" and then realize yes, yes it does. So, Jackdaw I'm going to get in for sure, don't want to lose Sevinne's Reclamation as I want to be able to get any permanent, so Karmic Guide will most likely get the chop. You are right, edhrec is good at listing any Commander synergy cards. Thanks for the suggestions. See if I can't get a few token focused games going today as I'm happy to lose Felidar Guardian and Restoration Angel and move away from the blink focus I am thinking.
TitanWalls on
Whippits (Jolly Balloon Man Token Primer)
1 year ago
This is essentially the card list on EDHREC, and I've noticed that apart from hitting an infinite combo, the only other win-con it has is pinging people for 1 very slowly, since the token generation isn't very fast. I dug up some heavy hitters that are a good fit for this commander to add more oomph: Threefold Thunderhulk, Boss's Chauffeur, and Custodi Soulbinders can all generate a massive board presence very quickly, with the first two synergizing extremely well with the pingers. I also think Jackdaw Savior works as maybe the best graveyard recurrence card for this deck, since your flying token copies have the same mana value as the originals. Just my two cents, though.
Gidgetimer on Boss's chauffeur and multiple other …
1 year ago
Accepted answers can be changed. I know that. The clone ruling is based on 614.12a, but it talks about choices being made and doesn't specify if a replacement effect modifying how a permanent enters the battlefield requires information from the game. We can use 602.8h, but again we come to the question of "is a permanent on the battlefield as it enters the battlefield?" The wording on Boss's Chauffeur sidesteps answering this by containing the word "other". It might be worth tweeting (X-ing?) Jess Dunks to find out.
614.12a If a replacement effect that modifies how a permanent enters the battlefield requires a choice, that choice is made before the permanent enters the battlefield.
608.2h If an effect requires information from the game (such as the number of creatures on the battlefield), the answer is determined only once, when the effect is applied. If the effect requires information from a specific object, including the source of the ability itself, the effect uses the current information of that object if it’s in the public zone it was expected to be in; if it’s no longer in that zone, or if the effect has moved it from a public zone to a hidden zone, the effect uses the object’s last known information. See rule 113.7a. If an ability states that an object does something, it’s the object as it exists—or as it most recently existed—that does it, not the ability.
Gidgetimer on Boss's chauffeur and multiple other …
1 year ago
My problem is that the first ability isn't an ETB, it is a replacement effect. Creatures must already be on the battlefield to replace how another creatures enters. Clone has a ruling that states "If Clone somehow enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, Clone can't become a copy of that creature. You may choose only a creature that's already on the battlefield." This ruling illustrates the point, but I can't find the comprehensive rule this is based on to cite, and Boss's Chauffeur doesn't have a similar ruling on Gatherer.
The Boss's Chauffeur will enter with one counter and then triggers will put two more on it for a total of three.
wallisface on Boss's chauffeur and multiple other …
1 year ago
yes this is how it will work.
If multiple cards enter the battlefield at the same time, they all see each-other, and count each-other for all etb abilities.
So if for example Boss's Chauffeur enters the battlefield at the same time as two other creatures (and assuming you have no other creatures in play), then Boss's Chauffeur will end up with 5 counters on it.
koylucumert on Boss's chauffeur and multiple other …
1 year ago
so Im planning to build a Nethroi, Apex of Death commander deck, and I was thinking of including boss's chauffeur because I thougth if I get Boss's Chauffeur and multiple other cards, the chauffeur will see those creatures both on the battlefield and as they enter the battlefield, and therefore will get two counters for each creature it comes together with. is this how that interaction works? if not, can someone explain what happens?
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