Bouncer's Beatdown
Instant
This spell costs 
less to cast if it targets a black permanent.
Bouncer's Beatdown deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #20316
Bouncer's Beatdown deals damage equal to your biggest creature's power to any target — a removal spell that scales with your board state, not your mana investment. At one mana when you control the biggest creature, it's the cheapest conditional kill spell in the format.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bouncer's Beatdown is a Commander card — the format's oversized creatures make the "greatest power" condition trivially easy to meet, and one-mana instant-speed removal that scales to six, eight, or ten damage is a genuine bargain. In Modern and Pioneer, creature power rarely climbs high enough fast enough to compete with unconditional options like Fatal Push or Path to Exile, so it sees essentially no play there. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many faster, cleaner answers that Bouncer's Beatdown never gets a look.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Bouncer's Beatdown sits firmly in bulk territory — pick up copies freely without thinking about it. Bulk one-mana removal doesn't tend to spike unless it breaks into a non-Commander format, and nothing about this card's condition suggests that's coming.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.