Sentry Bot
~$0.26 low · ~$1.27 high
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White. Artifact Creature — Robot

Fallout #24 · Illustrated by Anthony Devine
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Oracle text
Flash
This spell costs less to cast for each creature attacking you.
When this creature enters, you get for each creature attacking you.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
2/5
Format legality
All 4 printings of Sentry Bot
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fallout pip #24· 2024rare· Cardmarket €0.19 · €0.39 foil | rare | $0.26 | $0.35 | €0.19€0.39 foil | |
Fallout pip #371· 2024Extended Artrare· Cardmarket €0.36 · €0.61 foil | rare | $0.49 | $0.60 | €0.36€0.61 foil | |
Fallout pip #552· 2024Surge Foilrare· Cardmarket €1.50 foil | rare | No non-foil printing | $1.19 | €1.50 foil | |
Fallout pip #899· 2024Extended ArtSurge Foilrare· Cardmarket €0.80 foil | rare | No non-foil printing | $1.27 | €0.80 foil |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2024
- Printings
- 4
- Mana value
- 5
- EDHREC rank
- #10,414 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Keywords
- Flash
- Artist
- Anthony Devine
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the Fallout card (#24).
0024 · PIP · R · EN
- 0024Collector number: this card's place in the set list.
- PIPSet code for Fallout
- RRare
- ENPrinted in English
How to read a Magic card: every part and code, on real cards.
Rulings (12)
March 8, 2024
The cost-reduction ability of Sentry Bot doesn’t change its mana cost or mana value, only the total cost you pay. Specifically, the mana value of Sentry Bot is always 5.
March 8, 2024
Some spells and abilities that give you
may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won’t resolve. You won’t get any
.
March 8, 2024
Once you announce that you’re casting Sentry Bot, no player may take actions until you’re done casting it. Notably, opponents can’t remove creatures from combat to try to change Sentry Bot’s total cost.
March 8, 2024
Some triggered abilities that state that you “may pay” a certain amount of
describe an effect that happens “If you do.” In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability’s effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase “When you do,” then you’ll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
March 8, 2024
Keep track of how many energy 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. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
March 8, 2024
If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you “may pay” some amount of
, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won’t resolve. You can’t pay any
even if you want to.
March 8, 2024
Use the number of creatures attacking you as Sentry Bot’s third ability resolves to determine the number of energy counters you get.
March 8, 2024
Some triggered abilities state that you “may pay” a certain amount of
. You can’t pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of
as the ability resolves.
March 8, 2024
Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They’re not associated with any specific permanents.
March 8, 2024
If an effect says you get one or more
, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more
, you lose that many energy counters. You can’t pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
March 8, 2024
Energy counters aren’t mana. They don’t go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana “of any type” can’t give you energy counters.
March 8, 2024
is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.
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