Swarm Shambler
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic Online PromosPRM · #83740
- Card type
- Creature — Fungus Beast
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 1
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 0
- Colour
- Green
Card text
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. , : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- 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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nicholas Gregory
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
Rulings
An ability that triggers when a creature becomes the target of a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
If a creature without a +1/+1 counter on it becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, putting a +1/+1 counter on it after that won’t cause Swarm Shambler’s middle ability to trigger.
If a spell targets a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it more than once, Swarm Shambler’s ability triggers only once.
You create just one Insect token, no matter how many +1/+1 counters the target creature has on it.
