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Bloatfly Swarm

~$2.23 low · ~$11.95 high

Black. Creature — Insect Mutant

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Bloatfly Swarm

Fallout #42 · Illustrated by Igor Krstic

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~$2.23

Non-foil · Fallout #42

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~$11.95

Surge Foil foil · Fallout #570

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Oracle text

Flying

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.

If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, then give each player a rad counter for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

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All 2 printings of Bloatfly Swarm

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Fallout #570
Fallout
pip #570· 2024Surge Foiluncommon· Cardmarket €9.43 foil
uncommonNo non-foil printing$11.95€9.43 foil

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Card details

First printed
2024
Printings
2
Mana value
4
EDHREC rank
#5,396 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Flying
Artist
Igor Krstic

Rulings (9)

  1. 2024-03-08

    In a game using the shared team turns option, such as an Archenemy or Two-Headed Giant game, the inherent triggered ability associated with rad counters triggers once for each player on the active team that has rad counters. Each instance of that ability is controlled by one of those players.

  2. 2024-03-08

    If damage that can't be prevented is dealt to Bloatfly Swarm, you still remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, and you still give each player a rad counter for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

  3. 2024-03-08

    There is an inherent triggered ability associated with having rad counters. This triggered ability has no source and is controlled by the active player. The full text of this ability is "At the beginning of the precombat main phase of a player with rad counters, that player mills cards equal to the number of rad counters they have. For each nonland card milled this way, that player loses 1 life and removes one rad counter from themselves."

  4. 2024-03-08

    Rad counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.

  5. 2024-03-08

    The cards are milled all at once, which means abilities that trigger "whenever one or more nonland cards are milled" will trigger exactly once as long as at least one nonland card was milled.

  6. 2024-03-08

    If a player has fewer cards remaining in their library than the number of rad counters they have when the triggered ability resolves, they'll mill as many cards as they can.

  7. 2024-03-08

    Rad counters don't go away as steps, phases, or turns end. They only go away when an effect instructs a player to remove rad counters from themselves.

  8. 2024-03-08

    Keep track of how many rad counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing them down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine.

  9. 2024-03-08

    Any effects (such as proliferate) that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with rad counters.

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