BlackLegendary Creature — Boar MutantBebop, Skull & Crossbones
Mana value2Rank#11,371PartnerYes
The Commander
Partner with Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder (When this creature enters, target player may put Rocksteady into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Deathtouch
Whenever Bebop deals combat damage to a player, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of counters on Bebop. If you do, you lose X life.
Guide
Gameplan
Bebop is a mono-black counter-matters Voltron beater: pile +1/+1 counters onto a deathtouch body, connect for combat damage, then refill your hand by drawing X cards (paying life) every turn. You curve into counter enablers and evasion, grind through removal with reanimation and protection, and convert your card advantage into a lethal swing or a black finisher.
Strengths
- Deathtouch makes Bebop a fearless attacker and blocker that trades up against anything
- Repeatable card draw scaling with counters keeps your hand stocked in mono-black, a color hungry for advantage
- Cheap two-mana commander that comes down early and snowballs with proliferate and counter doublers
- Partner with Rocksteady gives flexible deckbuilding and a free tutor-to-hand on a stick
Weaknesses
- Card draw costs life, so racing aggressive decks or paying for it under pressure can kill you
- Needs Bebop to connect — gets walled by go-wide blockers, fog, or evasion answers
- Mono-black struggles to interact with the stack and lacks artifact/enchantment removal
- All-in on the commander; removal-heavy tables can tax you with repeated recast costs
Key Cards
- Hardened Scales — Turns every counter source into extra counters, accelerating both Bebop's size and his draw payout.
- The Ozolith — Banks Bebop's counters when he dies and reloads them onto the recast commander, beating removal.
- Whip of Erebos — Grants lifelink to offset the life loss from drawing and gives reanimation insurance.
- Fynn, the Fangbearer — Combines with deathtouch to dump poison counters, offering an alternate, fast kill path.
- Cathars' Crusade — Stacks counters across your board each time creatures enter, ballooning Bebop's draw and damage.
- Greaves and Lightning Greaves — Haste and protection let Bebop attack the turn he lands and dodge targeted removal.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Jet Medallion, Nirkana Revenant) and protection (Swiftfoot Boots, Heroic Intervention, Malakir Rebirth) so Bebop reliably connects. Lean into counter doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution) plus proliferate engines, and include lifegain like Bontu's Monument or Whip of Erebos to make the draw trigger free. Round out with efficient tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) and a Torment of Hailfire finisher to convert your card advantage into wins.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Commander damage from a counter-pumped, evasive Bebop
- ▸Poison kills via Fynn, the Fangbearer triggering off deathtouch combat damage
- ▸Black finishers like Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate fueled by stockpiled card advantage
- ▸Overwhelming board buffs from Cathars' Crusade pushing through lethal swings
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters — Bebop's draw scales directly with counters, rewarding proliferate, doublers, and counter generators.
- Voltron — A single evasive deathtouch threat carrying buffs and protection can grind out the table.
- Infect/Poison — Deathtouch plus poison payoffs like Fynn turn even small connects into lethal poison stacks.
- Aristocrats-lite — Mono-black's drain and sacrifice package supplements the life loss and provides reach.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (B), by popularity.
