Printings
Clockwork Swarm
Card Information
Type: Artifact Creature — Insect
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Homelands (HML)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 104
Oracle Text
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it. This creature can't be blocked by Walls. At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. {X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on this creature. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on this creature to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 4, 2004
If the ability to add counters resolves when there are already the maximum number of counters on it, any counters over the maximum are simply not added.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
Source: wotc
Price History
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