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Beifong's Bounty Hunters

Creature — Human Mercenary

Whenever a nonland creature you control dies, earthbend X, where X is that creature's power. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#10261
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Beifong's Bounty Hunters card art
Beifong's Bounty Hunters puts three 2/2 Human tokens on the battlefield the moment it enters, making it an immediate board presence that snowballs in any deck that wants bodies, sacrifice fodder, or landfall triggers. The cost is real — five mana for a 3/5 is on the slower side — but decks built around Baba Lysaga, Night Witch or recursive threats like Bloodghast will gladly pay it for the three creatures stapled to the front.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

30.8% of decks · synergy 0.28

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch wants exactly three expendable creatures to sacrifice every turn for her triggered ability, and Beifong's Bounty Hunters delivers that quota the moment it enters.

02
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride

The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.18

The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride needs a steady stream of creatures to mount and sacrifice for landfall triggers, and Beifong's Bounty Hunters supplies three at once without eating up additional card slots.

03
Jenova, Ancient Calamity

Jenova, Ancient Calamity

16.2% of decks · synergy 0.14

Jenova, Ancient Calamity rewards copying or flickering permanents, and Beifong's Bounty Hunters re-triggers its token production every time it re-enters the battlefield, compounding the board state quickly.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Beifong's Bounty Hunters does its real work — sacrifice synergies, landfall engines, and token-doubling effects are all common enough that the three-body entry is reliably exploited rather than just tolerated. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it faces stiff competition from cheaper token producers and doesn't offer enough raw efficiency to carve out a maindeck slot, though it could see fringe sideboard or casual play. Legacy and Vintage have access to so much broken interaction that a five-mana 3/5 simply doesn't register. Standard is the one format where it could matter if a sacrifice or token theme happens to be well-supported in the current card pool.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Beifong's Bounty Hunters is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of or a suite of copies without any real financial commitment. Bulk rares with narrow but genuine Commander applications tend to stay in this range unless a breakout combo pushes demand, so treat it as a cheap pickup rather than a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.