Oil counter
| Oil counter | |
|---|---|
| Counter | |
| Use | Phyrexian corruption |
| Placed on | Permanents |
| Introduced | Phyrexia: All Will Be One |
| Last used | Phyrexia: All Will Be One |
| Statistics | |
|
16 counter creation cards  12.5%  25%  6.3%  18.8%  12.5%  6.3%  12.5%  6.3% | |
| Scryfall search | |
| oracle:"Oil counter" | |
Oil counters are a counter type in Magic. They were introduced in Phyrexia: All Will Be One.[1][2]
Description
Oil counters are basically blank counters that can be used in various ways. They have no inherent rules meaning, but are flavory connected to the Glistening oil of the Phyrexians. Some cards put oil counters on themselves and then use those counters for various effects. Other cards care about how many permanents you control with oil counters on them. Still others move oil counters around.
They can mark several uses of an ability, they can help you build up (both for scaling and threshold abilities), they can help you count down, or they can change the size of a creature or the power of an effect. The one thing R&D agreed on was that they wanted them to play nicely with proliferate, so having more should be better than having fewer. This meant for example, if they wanted a creature to only last three turns, they would start with three counters and count down, rather than counting up and having removal when you get to three counters. This way, using proliferate would grant you an extra turn with the creature.[2]
Rules
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Rulings
References
- ↑ Matt Tabak (January 17, 2023). "Phyrexia: All Will Be One Mechanics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (January 17, 2023). "Phyrexia: All Will Be One Direction, Part 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.