Cryptborn Horror
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic Online PromosPRM · #46883
- Card type
- Creature — Horror
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 0
- Colour
- Black Red
Card text
Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.
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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nils Hamm
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
Rulings
Cryptborn Horror cares about the total life lost, not necessarily what an opponent's life total is compared to what it was at the beginning of the turn. For example, if an opponent loses 5 life and then gains 10 life on the turn Cryptborn Horror enters, it will enter with five +1/+1 counters on it.
If no opponent has lost life on the turn Cryptborn Horror enters, it will enter with no +1/+1 counters on it and be put into its owner's graveyard (unless something else is raising its toughness).
In multiplayer games, life lost the turn Cryptborn Horror enters by opponents who left the game later that turn will count toward the value of X.
Remember, damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life (unless the source has infect).
