Charge counter/List of cards
By Set
Legends
- Originally, the Mana Battery cycle used just counters. They were given errata to call them Charge counters. They are the first artifacts to use charge counters. — Black Mana Battery, Blue Mana Battery, Green Mana Battery, Red Mana Battery and White Mana Battery.
Ice Age
Mirage
Mercadian Masques
- Black Market is the first enchantment non-aura to produce charge counters.
- Kyren Toy
- Magistrate's Scepter is the first artifact to use charge counters (3 at a time) for extra turns.
Nemesis
Onslaught
Mirrodin
Mirrodin block is an artifact-heavy block and one of the themes was charge counters. The following cards use charge counters: Altar of Shadows, Banshee’s Blade (the first equipment to use charge counters), Chalice of the Void, Jinxed Choker, Lightning Coils, Serum Tank, Sun Droplet
Darksteel
Mirrodin block is an artifact-heavy block and one of the themes was charge counters. The following cards use charge counters: Aether Vial, Arcane Spyglass, Chimeric Egg, Coretapper, Darksteel Reactor, Spawning Pit, Talon of Pain
Fifth Dawn
The Sunburst mechanic put counters on an item equal to the number of colors used to pay its casting cost. The following cards used the Sunburst mechanic to gain charge counters: Arcbound Wanderer, Baton of Courage, Clearwater Goblet, Engineered Explosives, Heliophial, Infused Arrows, Opaline Bracers, Pentad Prism
Champions of Kamigawa
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Coldsnap
Future Sight
Lorwyn
- A cycle of lands uses charge counters: Vivid Crag, Vivid Creek, Vivid Grove, Vivid Marsh and Vivid Meadow
Morningtide
Shards of Alara
Alara Reborn
- Lightning Reaver - first non-artifact creature to use charge counters.
Zendikar
Worldwake
Rise of the Eldrazi
Scars of Mirrodin
- Trigons: A cycle of artifacts which enter the battlefield with three charge counters on them, have an ability which costs two colored mana and tapping the artifact to add another charge counter, and an ability related to that color which can be used with a generic activation of
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and removing a counter. — Trigon of Mending, Trigon of Thought, Trigon of Corruption, Trigon of Rage, Trigon of Infestation. - Chimeric Mass
- Culling Dais
- Golden Urn
- Golem Foundry
- Grindclock
- Lux Cannon
- Necrogen Censer
- Ratchet Bomb
- Tumble Magnet
Mirrodin Besieged
New Phyrexia
- Shrines: A cycle of uncommon artifacts that gain a charge counter at the beginning of its controllers upkeep, and whenever they cast a spell of a specified color, and can be sacrificed for an effect that scales with the number of charge counters. — Shrine of Loyal Legions, Shrine of Piercing Vision, Shrine of Limitless Power, Shrine of Burning Rage, and Shrine of Boundless Growth.
- Conversion Chamber
- Gremlin Mine
- Surge Node