Charge counter: Difference between revisions

Charge counter
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Counter
Use	Various
Placed on	Non-creature permanents
Introduced	Ice Age
Last used	Guilds of Ravnica
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Charge counters are the third most common counter type in Magic, and serve as the default counter for noncreature permanents.^[1] They were introduced on the Ice Age cards Ice Cauldron and Jeweled Amulet, though they have been retroactively applied to the Legends mana battery cycle.^[2]

While charge counters are the default choice, many other counter types exist. Charge counters are one of the few types that are mechanically referenced on other cards, whereas other types are given distinct names for the sake of flavor.^[3]

Mechanics

Despite their frequency, charge counters have only been used by a single keyworded mechanic.

Sunburst

References

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↑ Gatherer search for "mana battery"
↑ Mark Rosewater (August 2, 2012). "Since most counters in magic...". Blogatog. Tumblr.

v t e Counters

Common counters	+1/+1 -1/-1 Charge Defense Energy Finality Lore Loyalty Oil Poison Stun Time

Keyword counters	Deathtouch Double strike First strike Flying Haste Hexproof Indestructible Lifelink Menace Reach Shadow Trample Vigilance

Mechanic counters	Age CRANK! Divinity Fade Ki Level Rad Shield Spore Ticket

Cycle counters	Brick Depletion Experience Quest Storage Verse

Other counters on multiple cards	Acorn Aim Blaze Blood Bounty Coin Collection Corpse Delay Devotion Doom Dream Egg Eon Fate Feather Fetch Flame Flood Fungus Fuse Gold Growth Hatchling Healing Hit Hour Ice Infection Judgment Landmark Luck Net Omen Page Plague Point Pressure Scream Slime Soul Study Tide Velocity Void Wind Wish

Other counters on a single card	Aegis Arrow Arrowhead Awakening Blessing Bloodline Bloodstain Book Bore Brain Bribery Burden Cage Carrion Chorus Contested Credit Croak Crystal Component Corruption Cube Currency Day Death Descent Despair Discovery Dread Duty Echo Elixir Ember Enlightened Eruption Everything Eyeball Eyestalk Filibuster Foreshadow Fury Gem Ghostform Glyph Hack Harmony Hatching Hole Hone Hoofprint Hope Hourglass Hunger Impostor Incarnation Influence Ingenuity Intel Intervention Isolation Invitation Javelin Kick Knickknack Knowledge Loot Magnet Manabond Manifestation Mannequin Matrix Memory Midway Mine Mining Mire Music Muster Necrodermis Nest Night Ore Pain Palliation Paralyzation Pause Petal Petrification Phylactery Phyresis Pin Plot Polyp Prey Pupa Rejection Reprieve Rev Revival Ribbon Ritual Rope Rust Scroll Shell Shred Silver Sleep Sleight Slumber Soot Spark Spite Stash Story Strife Suspect Takeover Task Theft Tower Training Trap Treasure Unity Unlock Valor Vitality Vortex Vow Voyage Wage Winch

See also	Full list of all counter types Deprecated counters Unreleased counter mechanics

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Charge counter: Difference between revisions

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