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Bill the Pony
Card Information
Type: Legendary Creature — Horse
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
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Set: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 3
Oracle Text
When Bill the Pony enters, create two Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice a Food: Until end of turn, target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
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Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
Source: wotc - June 16, 2023
Bill the Pony's last ability doesn't actually change any creature's power. It changes only the amount of combat damage it assigns. All other rules and effects that check power or toughness use the real values. For example, since having two creatures fight doesn't result in combat damage, an effect that causes the affected creature to fight another creature will still use its power to determine how much damage is dealt.
Source: wotc
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