Bounties Pay the Bills
Bounty Board is a compact artifact that earns its keep in decks that prize incremental advantage and political leverage. As soon as you drop Bounty Board for {3} it becomes a utility land for mana and a persistent threat when you start placing bounty counters. Experienced players will appreciate that the card name pairs cleanly with targeted removal and sacrifice triggers because the payoff lands on the opponents of a creature's controller rather than the controller themselves.
Use Bounty Board to tax combat math and card advantage while keeping your own resources flexible. The first ability eases color fixing. The second ability lets you seed creatures with bounties at sorcery speed so you can bait trades or protect key creatures behind awkward blocks. When a creature with a bounty counter dies the resulting card draw and life gain go to that creature's controller's opponents which creates tension at the table and can swing multiplayer games in subtle ways.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}
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Card Type – Artifact
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Subtypes –
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – {T}: Add one mana of any color. 1, {T}: 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.
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Power / Toughness –
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Rarity – Rare
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Set – Commander: Outlaws of Thunder Junction
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Language – English
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Condition – Near Mint