Rhox Pummeler
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Streets of New CapennaSNC · #155
- Card type
- Creature — Rhino Soldier
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.02 € · ★ 0.09 € · 0.07 $ · ★ 0.24 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 6
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
This creature enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) This creature has trample as long as it has a shield counter on it.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Gabor Szikszai
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-04-29
Flavour text
When all you have is a warhammer, every face looks like a nail.
Rulings
"Shield" is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.
A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.
Combat damage is assigned to creatures and players and then dealt simultaneously. Notably, this means blocking a Rhox Pummeler with a shield counter on it won't normally prevent Rhox Pummeler from dealing damage to the defending player due to its trample ability.
If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.
If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
If an attacking Rhox Pummeler with one shield counter on it is blocked by a creature with first strike, the shield counter will be removed in the first combat damage step. In that case, Rhox Pummeler won't have trample when it deals combat damage in the second combat damage step.
Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.