Bovine Intervention

First printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction (2024)

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #123, 2026
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) #6, 2024

Bovine Intervention

Instant

Destroy target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 2/2 white Ox creature token.

No one could prove the ox did it, but no one tried to harness it again either.

Illustrated by: Julia Metzger

Legality

Legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Pauper, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH

Ruling (1)

2024-04-12 If the target artifact or creature is an illegal target by the time Bovine Intervention tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. No player creates an Ox token. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), its controller does create an Ox token.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Standard In 19 of 4360 decks (0.4%), most in WUG (unclassified)

Standard metagame

Share of decks

0.4%

▲ 0.4 vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

19

0 main, 19 sideboard

Avg. copies

–

in the main deck

Win rate

60%

3 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	0.3%
17 Aug	1.6%
24 Aug	2.0%
31 Aug	0.0%
7 Sep	1.1%
14 Sep	0.3%
21 Sep	0.4%
28 Sep	0.4%
5 Oct	0.0%
12 Oct	0.3%
19 Oct	0.2%
26 Oct	0.0%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
WUG (unclassified)	1.2%	27%
WURG (unclassified)	0.5%	23%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

Deck	Record
WUG Cachorrowo in Standard Challenge 32	8-1 89%
WURG ProtoPulse in Standard Challenge 32	5-2 71%
WURG LBBL in Standard Challenge 32	5-2 71%
WURG VampireDiaries in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
WURG VampireDiaries in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
WUG Cachorrowo in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
WUG Ivan_Draw_Go in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
WUG Tinker_deck in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
WUG VampireDiaries, 25 Oct	2 side	#23 of 36 1-3
WUG lBigdawg, 18 Oct	4 side	5-0
WURG VampireDiaries, 2 Oct	2 side	#12 of 45 4-2
WUG Arena ranked player, 28 Sep	2 side
WURG VampireDiaries, 18 Sep	2 side	#30 of 50 2-3
WUG Cachorrowo, 11 Sep	1 side	#17 of 44 3-3
WURG VampireDiaries, 11 Sep	2 side	#14 of 44 4-2
WUG AFitzsimmons, 11 Sep	1 side	#31 of 44 2-4

Commander In 35 of 15406 decks (0.2%), most in Dack Fayden, Helping Hand

Commander metagame

Share of decks

0.2%

vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

35

35 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.0

in the main deck

Win rate

43%

12 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	–
17 Aug	0.2%
24 Aug	0.1%
31 Aug	0.3%
7 Sep	0.3%
14 Sep	0.1%
21 Sep	0.3%
28 Sep	0.2%
5 Oct	0.2%
12 Oct	0.4%
19 Oct	0.3%
26 Oct	0.3%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand	0.6%	10%
Oswald Fiddlebender	0.2%	78%
Invisible Woman	0.0%	100%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Arcane Signet	100%	1.5
Sol Ring	100%	1.0
Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field	89%	86.9
Portable Hole	89%	69.3
Trinisphere	89%	35.0
Touch the Spirit Realm	89%	10.6
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain	89%	7.0
Urza's Saga	89%	3.7
Vexing Bauble	89%	3.6
Grim Monolith	89%	3.0

Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Oswald Fiddlebender Harry Licata [OT3] in Give Me My Money	4-2 67%
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand DKmiles in Cash Cards Unlimited CEDH Tournament - October	3-2 60%
Oswald Fiddlebender Drunkan Ivens [PACT] in cEDH Nationals Deutschland - Open	3-2 60%
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand Yetti [Insomniac] in Perfect Storm Comics & Games - Tabernacle 10K	2-3 40%
Oswald Fiddlebender Alejandro Méndez in CEDH Norte Bilbao + Zaragoza + Pamplona	2-3 40%
Oswald Fiddlebender Chris Gardner in cEDH UK Open - Benfest III	2-4 33%
Oswald Fiddlebender Tristan Thrower in Trainer J's 100% Proxy Legal CEDH Tournament	1-4 20%
Oswald Fiddlebender Greg Piquer [Clever Impersonators] in Wilo's Birthday Brawl CEDH	1-4 20%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Oswald Fiddlebender Ptw, 1 Nov	1 main	#10 of 26 1-2
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand [Hooligan] Reed R, 31 Oct	1 main	#9 of 32 1-2
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand DKmiles, 25 Oct	1 main	#2 (top 8) of 28 3-2
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand Tai Makes Noise, 24 Oct	1 main	#19 of 65 1-1
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand William McCall, 24 Oct	1 main	#2 (top 8) of 32 3-1
Oswald Fiddlebender Jayden J, 24 Oct	1 main	#37 of 50 0-3
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand Kayla Kiley, 24 Oct	1 main	#57 of 76 0-2
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand Kayla Kiley, 17 Oct	1 main	#2 (top 8) of 25 2-1

Modern In 2 of 9400 decks (0.0%), most in Boros Energy

Modern metagame

Share of decks

0.0%

= vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

2

0 main, 2 sideboard

Avg. copies

–

in the main deck

Win rate

–

0 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	0.0%
17 Aug	0.0%
24 Aug	0.0%
31 Aug	0.0%
7 Sep	0.0%
14 Sep	0.0%
21 Sep	0.0%
28 Sep	0.1%
5 Oct	0.0%
12 Oct	0.0%
19 Oct	0.0%
26 Oct	0.0%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Boros Energy	6.6%	0%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

No results yet.

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Boros Energy joseaf, 3 Oct	2 side	5-0
Boros Energy joseaf, 7 Aug	2 side	5-0

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Bovine Intervention in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Premier Draft	49.4%	-4.7	-2.6	7266
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Sealed	52.9%	-2.4	+0.7	584

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen