Clockwork Steed
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Horse
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it. This creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures. At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. , : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on this creature. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on this creature to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- Terese Nielsen
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-09-22
Rulings
Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
If Clockwork Steed has four or fewer +1/+0 counters on it when its last ability resolves, it can wind up with a maximum of four such counters on it. If it has four or more +1/+0 counters on it, the ability will have no effect.
When Clockwork Steed's last ability resolves, you can choose to put fewer than X +1/+0 counters on it.