One-Clown Band

Artifact Creature — Clown Robot Bard

{2}{R}: Target Robot gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Unfinity
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#24592
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One-Clown Band enters as a 1/1 that generates a 1/1 token and can be buffed by tapping other clowns — a self-contained, board-building package that grows with a dedicated tribe. The cost is real: you need critical mass of Clown support to unlock the ceiling, and outside that shell it's just a two-mana 1/1 with a free friend.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is the primary home for One-Clown Band — tribal synergy scales with the 99-card singleton format, and Clown-themed builds can lean on it as an early board presence that rewards critical mass. In Pauper, its common status makes it technically eligible but the Clown tribe lacks the support density to make it competitive there. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but neither format has any interest in a two-mana 1/1 token generator, so those entries are purely incidental. One-Clown Band is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.04 bulk tier

At $0.04, One-Clown Band sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought in a collection or batch order. Bulk commons rarely appreciate, so there's no reason to sit on copies speculatively; just grab it if the deck calls for it.

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