Foundry Hornet
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Aether RevoltAER · #59
- Card type
- Creature — Insect
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.06 € · ★ 0.19 € · 0.25 $ · ★ 0.31 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Flying When this creature enters, if you control a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- 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
- Christopher Moeller
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-01-20
Flavour text
Its buzzing is easily mistaken for the hum of a thopter's wings.
Rulings
If an effect causes Foundry Hornet to enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it, it satisfies its own triggered ability.
If you don’t control a creature with a +1/+1 counter as Foundry Hornet enters the battlefield, its ability doesn’t trigger, even if you can give a +1/+1 counter to a creature right away. If you control no creatures with a +1/+1 counter as the ability resolves, nothing happens.
The set of creatures affected by Foundry Hornet’s triggered ability is determined as the ability resolves. Creatures opponents begin to control later in the turn and permanents opponents control that become creatures later in the turn won’t get -1/-1. The effect continues until end of turn even if you stop controlling a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.
