Carnival Hellsteed
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic Online PromosPRM · #46885
- Card type
- Creature — Nightmare Horse
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 5
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Black Red
Card text
First strike, haste Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- 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
- Min Yum
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
Flavour text
Its favorite treats are candied hands and sweet hearts.
Rulings
A creature with unleash can’t block if it has any +1/+1 counter on it, not just one put on it by the unleash ability.
Putting a +1/+1 counter on a creature with unleash that’s already blocking won’t remove it from combat. It will continue to block.
The unleash ability applies no matter where the creature is entering the battlefield from.
You make the choice to have the creature with unleash enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter or not as it’s entering the battlefield. At that point, it’s too late for a player to respond to the creature spell by trying to counter it, for example.
