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Arcbound Fiend

Card Name

Arcbound Fiend

Mana Cost

6

Type

Artifact Creature – Horror

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto this creature.Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(12/1/2004)
The creature that's targeted by Arcbound Fiend's middle ability doesn't have to have any +1/+1 counters on it. If it doesn't have a counter on it when the ability resolves, nothing happens.
(9/25/2006)
If this creature gets enough -1/-1 counters put on it to cause its toughness to be 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), modular will put a number of +1/+1 counters on the target artifact creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature before it left the battlefield.