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Watchdog
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
TempestTMP · #314
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Dog
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.20 € · 0.20 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
This creature blocks each combat if able. As long as this creature is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Richard Kane Ferguson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1997-10-14
Flavour text
Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.
Rulings
The second ability is no longer triggered. It continuously checks the tapped/untapped status of the Watchdog, and gives them -1/-0 as appropriate.