The Jolly Balloon Man Price
7 printings · 3 sets · first printed 2024
The Jolly Balloon Man has been printed 7 times across 3 sets, first in 2024 and most recently in 2026. Right now the cheapest printing is Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos #219p at $0.53, while the most expensive is Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos #219s at $3.24 — about 6× more. The median across 4 priced printings is $1.19. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 3x in the last 2 years.
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Every The Jolly Balloon Man Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos #219p (R) Cheapest | 2024 | $0.53 | $0.60 foil |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror #219 (R) | 2024 | $1.04 | $0.12 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror #359 (R) | 2024 | $1.34 | $0.38 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos #219s (R) Foil | 2024 | $3.24 | $2.75 foil |
| The Zeta Set #333 (U) | 2026 | — | — |
| The Zeta Set #212 (U) | 2026 | — | — |
| The Zeta Set #91 (U) | 2026 | — | — |
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: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 7 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
5 PrecedentsExcept for the listed exceptions, the token created by The Jolly Balloon Man's ability copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
Any enters abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the copied creature will also work.
If the copied creature has 
in its mana cost, X is 0.
If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the stated exceptions.
If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that creature copied, with the stated exception.