Spiteful Squad
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #237
- Card type
- Creature — Human Warlock
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.10 € · ★ 0.10 € · 0.19 $ · ★ 0.04 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 0
- Colour
- White Black
Card text
Deathtouch This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.
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
- Manuel Castañón
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
"Don't you know first-years pay a toll to walk through here?"
Rulings
If Spiteful Squad has -1/-1 counters on it when it dies, the last ability will include those as well. This may result in the recipient also dying. Spiteful indeed.
In some unusual cases, you may end up putting the appropriate counters on more than one permanent. For example, if you control The Ozolith when Spiteful Squad dies, you will put the appropriate number of each kind of counter onto both The Ozolith and the target creature.
Spiteful Squad's ability doesn't cause you to move counters from itself to the target creature. Rather, you put the same number of each kind of counter Spiteful Squad had when it died onto that creature.