Bounty Board
Artifact
: Add one mana of any color.
, : Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Price
- $1.20
- EDHREC rank
- #4953
Bounty Board turns your opponents' creatures into a group-funded card-draw engine — slap a bounty counter on a threat, and anyone who kills it draws you cards and gains life, including you. The cost of admission is three mana to cast and one to place each counter, which is steep enough that Mathas, Fiend Seeker — who staples the same effect to his combat damage trigger for free — is the deck that makes it sing loudest.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mathas, Fiend Seeker
Mathas, Fiend Seeker puts bounty counters on threats every time he connects, and Bounty Board stacks that same incentive structure on a permanent you control — together they flood the table with bounties and turn removal into card advantage for you whether or not you're the one doing the killing.
Kros, Defense Contractor
Kros, Defense Contractor hands out goad like a second job, and Bounty Board converts the resulting combat chaos into raw cards — every creature your opponents are forced to attack with becomes a potential bounty payout, rewarding Kros for engineering fights he doesn't even have to participate in.
Olivia, Opulent Outlaw
Olivia, Opulent Outlaw rewards killing creatures with Treasure and counters, and Bounty Board layers card draw on top of that same trigger condition — opponents removing her targets or racing to collect bounties themselves just accelerates the engine Olivia already wants running.
Kelsien, the Plague
Kelsien, the Plague kills creatures with tap abilities and grows off each death, so Bounty Board turns every Kelsien execution into a card draw event, giving the deck a draw engine that scales directly with how efficiently the commander does its job.
Horobi, Death's Wail
Horobi, Death's Wail turns any targeting effect into a kill spell, making it trivially easy to rack up creature deaths — Bounty Board converts that wholesale slaughter into card advantage, but the payoff depends on bounty counters landing before Horobi's kill-everything reputation draws immediate removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bounty Board is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is the entire premise, since its payoffs depend on opponents killing each other's creatures while you collect the rewards. In a two-player format like Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal, the card is nearly inert: your opponent has no incentive to kill their own creatures for your benefit, and a three-mana artifact that does nothing immediately is unplayable at those power levels. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer structure, so the card functions there, though the smaller starting life total and faster game pace make the one-mana-per-bounty cost feel slow. Stick to Commander, and specifically to decks that already have a plan for marking creatures or incentivizing combat — that's the only context where Bounty Board earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.20 cheap tier
At $1.20, Bounty Board sits in the bracket of cards you pick up without thinking twice — low enough that it's a free inclusion trial in any Mardu politics or Mathas build. That price reflects accurate market demand: it's a narrow card with a dedicated home, not a staple, so don't expect significant movement in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.