Point counter

Point counter
Counter
Use	Tracking the "score" of a sport-themed minigame
Placed on	Artifacts
Introduced	Strixhaven: School of Mages
Last used	The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Point counters are a type of counter introduced in Strixhaven: School of Mages. They act as a tracking mechanism for game related actions.

Description

Cards that use point counters thematically represent the back-and-forth of a sports game where points are gained or lost.

Point counters first appeared on the Strixhaven Stadium in Strixhaven: School of Mages. It is an artifact with an activated ability to add 1 colorless mana and a point counter on the artifact. If a creature deals combat damage to the player then a point counter is removed and whenever a creature the player controls deals damage another point counter is added to it. If the artifact reaches 10 or more counters then the player who was dealt damage and caused the last counter to be added loses the game.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan used point counters on Contested Game Ball; a similarly sport themed card. Rather than being used as an alternate lose condition, it is used to track who "wins" the prize of a Treasure token.

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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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