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June, Bounty Hunter

Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary

June can't be blocked as long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Clue token. Activate only during your turn. (It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#14957
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June, Bounty Hunter card art
June, Bounty Hunter puts a bounty counter on any nonland permanent your opponents control the moment it enters, then turns every subsequent death of a bounty-marked permanent into a free 1/1 Mercenary token — that's immediate board presence tied to a removal magnet. The catch is the 3/3 body for three mana is unremarkable, and the engine stalls if opponents play around the counter by leaving marked permanents alive; something like Cauldron Familiar, which dies and recurs repeatedly, is exactly the kind of card that makes June absurd.

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

In Commander, June, Bounty Hunter rewards decks that can spread bounty counters beyond the one-per-turn baseline — flicker effects, proliferate, or sacrifice-heavy aristocrats loops turn a single counter into a token engine across the table. Outside Commander, June is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but three mana for a 3/3 with a conditional delayed payoff struggles to clear the bar in competitive 60-card formats where three mana buys more immediate impact. The strongest constructed home is any midrange shell that already runs sacrifice fodder, where June functions as a value piece rather than a centerpiece.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, June, Bounty Hunter sits squarely in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up in a trade binder without thinking twice. Bulk rares with genuine Commander synergy tend to stay cheap until a breakout deck puts them on the map, so the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile aristocrats list pushes demand.

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