TYPE
Artifact Creature — Beast

ABILITY
Clockwork Beast enters with seven +1/+0 counters on it. At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. {X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.

POWER/TOUGHNESS
0/4

ILLUSTRATOR
Drew Tucker

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
EN FR DE IT JP KR PT RU ES ZH-CN ZH-TW

RULINGS

• 2004-10-04 Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
• 2004-10-04 Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
• 2007-09-16 This is a change from the most recent wording. Now, if some other spell or ability causes +1/+0 counters to be put on Clockwork Beast, it can wind up with more than seven such counters on it.
• 2007-09-16 If Clockwork Beast has seven or fewer +1/+0 counters on it when its last ability resolves, it can wind up a maximum of seven such counters on it. If it has seven or more +1/+0 counters on it, the ability will have no effect.
• 2007-09-16 Clockwork Beast’s last ability resolves, you can choose to put fewer than X +1/+0 counters on it.