Clockwork Avian
Mana cost
Mana value5TypeArtifact Creature — Bird
Color identity
Colorless
RarityUncommon
SetMasters Edition IV (ME4)
ArtistRandy Asplund-Faith
Price€0.24
Mana value5TypeArtifact Creature — Bird
Color identity Colorless
RarityUncommon
SetMasters Edition IV (ME4)
ArtistRandy Asplund-Faith
Price€0.24About this card
Clockwork Avian is a creature artifact card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 5 (color identity: colorless). First printed in Antiquities (1994); 6 paper printings in total. Legal in Commander, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €0.24 (Renaissance); most expensive: €14.41 (Antiquities).
Clockwork Avian
Artifact Creature — Bird
Flying
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
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: 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.
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
, : 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.0/4
Name in each language
FrançaisOiseau mécaniqueEnglishClockwork AvianEspañolAve mecánicaDeutschMechanischer VogelItalianoCreatura Alata MeccanicaPortuguêsAve Mecânica日本語機械仕掛けの鳥
Legality
CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernNot legalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulLegal
Rulings
2004-10-04
Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
2004-10-04
Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
2004-10-04
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.
