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Arcbound Fiend

Magic: The GatheringDarksteel#96

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DarksteelDST · #96

Card type: Artifact Creature — Horror
Rarity: Uncommon
Indicative price: 0.18 € · ★ 1.46 € · 0.36 $ · ★ 3.58 $
Mana value: 6
Power: 0
Toughness: 0
Colour: Colourless

Card text

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto this creature. Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PredhLegal
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: Ittoku
Card language: English
Release date: 2004-02-06

Rulings

2004-12-01

The creature that’s targeted by Arcbound Fiend’s middle ability doesn’t have to have any +1/+1 counters on it. If it doesn’t have a counter on it when the ability resolves, nothing happens.

2006-09-25

If this creature gets enough -1/-1 counters put on it to cause its toughness to be 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), modular will put a number of +1/+1 counters on the target artifact creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature before it left the battlefield.