Hangarback Walker
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Kaladesh InventionsMPS · #13
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Rarity
- Special
- Indicative price
- ★ 45.00 € · ★ 63.66 $
- Mana value
- 0
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 0
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. , : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Adam Paquette
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-09-30
Rulings
If enough -1/-1 counters are put on Hangarback Walker at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less, the number of +1/+1 counters on it before it got any -1/-1 counters will be used to determine how many Thopter tokens you get. For example, if there are three +1/+1 counters on Hangarback Walker and it gets four -1/-1 counters, you'll get three Thopter tokens. That's because Hangarback Walker's triggered ability checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
The value of each X in Hangarback Walker's mana cost must be equal. For example, if X is 2, you'll pay to cast Hangarback Walker and it will enter the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
