TYPE
Artifact Creature — Beast

ABILITY
Clockwork Beast enters with seven +1/+0 counters on it. At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. {X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.

POWER/TOUGHNESS
0/4

ILLUSTRATOR
Drew Tucker

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
EN

RULINGS

• 2004-10-04 Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
• 2004-10-04 Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
• 2007-09-16 This is a change from the most recent wording. Now, if some other spell or ability causes +1/+0 counters to be put on Clockwork Beast, it can wind up with more than seven such counters on it.
• 2007-09-16 If Clockwork Beast has seven or fewer +1/+0 counters on it when its last ability resolves, it can wind up a maximum of seven such counters on it. If it has seven or more +1/+0 counters on it, the ability will have no effect.
• 2007-09-16 Clockwork Beast’s last ability resolves, you can choose to put fewer than X +1/+0 counters on it.