
Hardened Scales
Enchantment
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Why is this card good?
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Printings (19)
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Combos (8)
- Gatta and Luzzu + Hardened Scales + Walking Ballista
→ Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Vigor + Hardened Scales + Walking Ballista
→ Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Ghave, Guru of Spores + Cryptic Trilobite + Hardened Scales
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Marath, Will of the Wild + Cryptic Trilobite + Hardened Scales
→ Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite damage
- Crystalline Crawler + Simic Ascendancy + Hardened Scales + Branching Evolution
→ Infinite colored mana, Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Strength of Will + Walking Ballista + Hardened Scales
→ Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Rulings (3)
- 2023-09-01
If a creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it, it enters with that many plus one instead.
- 2023-09-01
If two or more effects attempt to modify how many counters would be put on a creature you control, you choose the order to apply those effects, no matter who controls the sources of those effects.
- 2023-09-01
Each additional Hardened Scales you control will increase the number of +1/+1 counters placed on a creature you control by one.