Volatile counter

Volatile counter
Counter
Use	Death trigger, damage
Placed on	Permanents
Introduced	Unreleased mechanics
Last used	Unreleased mechanics
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oracle:"Volatile counter"

Volatile counter was a counter with an innate ability: "Whenever a permanent with a volatile counter on it went to the graveyard from the battlefield, the volatile counter does 2 damage to target opponent". It was created by Mark Gottlieb for Aether Revolt, but later in the design process, it was put out due to complexity and flavor issues.^[1]

Volatile counters proved to be very interesting, mainly on creatures. You could put them on your own things to either discourage your opponent from destroying them or to sacrifice them and get in extra damage, or you could put them on your opponent's permanents to either discourage their use or create an extra bonus when you destroyed them.

References

↑ Mark Rosewater (January 9, 2017). "A Revolting Development (and Design), Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.

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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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