Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
Legendary Creature — Giant Scout
Reach
When Bonny Pall enters, create Beau, a legendary blue Ox creature token with "Beau's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control."
Whenever you attack, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $1.85
- EDHREC rank
- #3158
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter turns every land drop into a 4/4 Ox token and every token into a land-fetch trigger, so a single untap step can spiral into a board state most green decks spend ten turns building. The cost — five mana for a legendary creature that does nothing the turn it enters against a counterspell — is real, but in any deck already drawing cards off land plays, that downside shrinks fast. Nim Deathmantle loops and Nine-Fingers Keene connive packages both show what happens when Bonny Pall, Clearcutter gets even one free attack: the game ends.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene's connive triggers draw cards and bin lands, which feeds directly into Bonny Pall, Clearcutter's token engine — every land cycled is another 4/4 entering and another fetch trigger stacking. Roughly a third of Keene builds run Bonny Pall, Clearcutter, and it's not hard to see why: the two commanders share the same resource loop.
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir cares about drawing multiple cards per turn, and Bonny Pall, Clearcutter closes that loop by converting the lands those draws find into 4/4 tokens. The token triggers then fuel further land searches, meaning Jolrael's card draw engine and Bonny Pall's land engine compound each other turn over turn.
Mr. Foxglove
Mr. Foxglove rewards you for casting creatures with different names, and Bonny Pall, Clearcutter produces a named legendary alongside a stream of anonymous Ox tokens — covering both sides of that incentive structure. The land-fetch tokens also keep the mana flowing to cast whatever creature Mr. Foxglove wants next.
Jyoti, Moag Ancient
Jyoti, Moag Ancient creates Forest tokens when lands enter, and Bonny Pall, Clearcutter's triggers put basic lands directly onto the battlefield — each land drop can cascade into multiple Forest tokens cascading into more land triggers. The interaction is recursive enough that Jyoti decks treat Bonny Pall, Clearcutter as a primary engine piece rather than a support card.
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath wants lands in hand to satisfy its escape cost and landfall-adjacent triggers, and Bonny Pall, Clearcutter's token fetches keep refilling that hand. Nearly 30% of Uro decks include Bonny Pall, Clearcutter because both cards point at the same axis: play lands, accrue value, never run out of gas.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Bonny Pall, Clearcutter actually lives — the five-mana cost is perfectly acceptable in a 100-card singleton format built around ramp, and the token-plus-fetch loop scales with every land-matters commander in Simic colors. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, the rate is too slow and the payoff too incremental to compete with the format's existing threats at the same mana investment. Standard is the one non-Commander context worth monitoring if a strong landfall deck emerges in a given rotation, but even there Bonny Pall, Clearcutter needs support to close games. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — five mana for a creature that doesn't win on the spot doesn't clear the bar in either format. Oathbreaker is a legitimate home if you pair Bonny Pall, Clearcutter with a planeswalker that draws cards or manipulates the top of the library.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Bonny Pall, ClearcutterNim DeathmantleAshnod's Altar
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$1.85 cheap tier
At $1.85, Bonny Pall, Clearcutter sits in the cheap tier — you're paying almost nothing for a card that shows up in over six thousand Nine-Fingers Keene decks alone. That price is unlikely to climb dramatically given its narrow Commander-specific appeal, but it's an easy include that won't strain any budget.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.