-1/-1 counter/List of cards

The following cards create -1/-1 counters.

Arabian Nights
• Unstable Mutation is the first enchantment - aura to use -1/-1 counters.

Fallen Empires
• Thelon's Chant and Tourach's Chant are the first non-aura enchantments to use -1/-1 counters.

Ice Age
• Skeleton Ship is the first creature to produce -1/-1 counters, as well as being the first multicolored and first legendary creature to do so. It is also the first creature that could tap to produce -1/-1 counters.

Homelands
• Giant Oyster

• Retribution is the first sorcery to produce -1/-1 counters.

• Serrated Arrows is the first artifact to produce -1/-1 counters. It also uses arrowhead counters.

• Torture

Alliances
• Misfortune</c> is the first sorcery to produce +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.

• Wandering Mage</c> is the first creature that could produce -1/-1 counters for a mana cost.

Mirage
• Harbinger of Night</c> is the first creature to put a -1/-1 counter on all creatures.

Visions
• Lichenthrope</c> is the first creature to receive -1/-1 counters in place of damage which is similar to wither but is for all damage not just combat damage.

• Matopi Golem</c> is the first artifact creature to receive a -1/-1 counter as part of payment to regenerate itself.

Weatherlight
• Aboroth</c> is the first creature to produce -1/-1 and age counters.

• Serrated Biskelion</c> is the first artifact creature to produce -1/-1 counters.

Tempest
• Fevered Convulsions</c>

• Segmented Wurm</c> is the first creature, as well as the first multicolored creature, to gain 1/-1 counters when it is the target of a spell or ability.

Mercadian Masques
• Quagmire Lamprey</c> is the first creature to put -1/-1 counters on creatures blocked by it.

Torment
• Shambling Swarm</c> is the first creature that distributed -1/-1 counters upon its death.

Shadowmoor
• -1/-1 counters were a big theme in the set.

• Barrenton Medic</c>

• Biting Tether</c>

• Blowfly Infestation</c>

• Chainbreaker</c>

• Cinderhaze Wretch</c>

• <c>Cultbrand Cinder</c>

• <c>Devoted Druid</c>

• <c>Dusk Urchins</c>

• <c>Flourishing Defenses</c>

• <c>Gnarled Effigy</c>

• <c>Grief Tyrant</c>

• <c>Grim Poppet</c>

• <c>Heartmender</c> removes -1/-1 counters from every creature you control during your upkeep in addition to having persist.

• <c>Incremental Blight</c>

• <c>Leech Bonder</c>

• <c>Morselhoarder</c>

• <c>Puncture Bolt</c>

• <c>Scar</c>

• <c>Scarscale Ritual</c>

• <c>Sinking Feeling</c>

• <c>Wicker Warcrawler</c>

• <c>Woeleecher</c>

Persist
Creatures with persist return to the battlefield under their owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on them if they had no -1/-1 counters on them when they died. • <c>Cauldron of Souls</c> is the first artifact that granted persist until end of turn.

• <c>Furystoke Giant</c>

• <c>Gravelgill Axeshark</c>

• <c>Kitchen Finks</c>

• <c>Murderous Redcap</c>

• <c>Puppeteer Clique</c>

• <c>Rattleblaze Scarecrow</c> has persist as long as you control a black creature.

• <c>River Kelpie</c>

• <c>Safehold Elite</c>

• <c>Scuzzback Marauders</c>

• <c>Twilight Shepherd</c>

• <c>Wingrattle Scarecrow</c> has persist as long as you control a black creature.

• <c>Woodfall Primus</c>

Wither
Creatures with wither dealt damage in the form of -1/-1 counters. • <c>Blazethorn Scarecrow</c>

• <c>Blight Sickle</c> is the first equipment to grant wither.

• <c>Boggart Ram-Gang</c>

• <c>Cinderbones</c>

• <c>Corrosive Mentor</c> also grants wither to all black creatures you control.

• <c>Everlasting Torment</c>

• <c>Fists of the Demigod</c>

• <c>Inescapable Brute</c>

• <c>Juvenile Gloomwidow</c>

• <c>Kulrath Knight</c>

• <c>Lockjaw Snapper</c>

• <c>Midnight Banshee</c>

• <c>Oona's Gatewarden</c>

• <c>Rustrazor Butcher</c>

• <c>Scuzzback Scrapper</c>

• <c>Sickle Ripper</c>

• <c>Slinking Giant</c>

• <c>Thornwatch Scarecrow</c> has wither as long as you control a green creature.

• <c>Tower Above</c> is the first sorcery to grant wither.

• <c>Wildslayer Elves</c>

• <c>Witherscale Wurm</c>

Eventide
• <c>Bloodied Ghost</c>
 * A cycle of uncommon 6/6 Elemental creatures with a cost of M come into play with four -1/-1 counters on it <c>Voracious Hatchling</c>, <c>Belligerent Hatchling</c>, <c>Shrewd Hatchling</c>, <c>Sturdy Hatchling</c>, and <c>Noxious Hatchling</c>.

• <c>Canker Abomination</c>

• <c>Crumbling Ashes</c> is the first enchantment that destroys a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

• <c>Deity of Scars</c>

• <c>Gwyllion Hedge-Mage</c>

• <c>Hatchet Bully</c>

• <c>Hotheaded Giant</c>

• <c>Pyrrhic Revival</c>

• <c>Quillspike</c>

• <c>Soul Snuffers</c>

• <c>Wickerbough Elder</c>

Persist
• <c>Aerie Ouphes</c>

• <c>Antler Skulkin</c>

• <c>Cauldron Haze</c>

• <c>Glen Elendra Archmage</c>

• <c>Grazing Kelpie</c>

• <c>Kithkin Spellduster</c>

• <c>Lingering Tormentor</c>

• <c>Rendclaw Trow</c>, also has wither.

• <c>Restless Apparition</c>

• <c>Trapjaw Kelpie</c>

Wither
Creatures with wither deal damage in the form of -1/-1 counters. • <c>Duergar Cave-Guard</c>

• <c>Fang Skulkin</c>

• <c>Harvest Gwyllion</c>

• <c>Hateflayer</c>

• <c>Necroskitter</c>

• <c>Needle Specter</c>

• <c>Puncture Blast</c>

• <c>Smoldering Butcher</c>

• <c>Stigma Lasher</c>

• <c>Twinblade Slasher</c>

• <c>Woodlurker Mimic</c>

Scars of Mirrodin
• <c>Carnifex Demon</c>

• <c>Contagion Clasp</c>

• <c>Contagion Engine</c>

• <c>Fume Spitter</c>

• <c>Instill Infection</c>

• <c>Skinrender</c>

Infect
Creatures with infect deal damage in the form of -1/-1 counters and poison counters. • <c>Blackcleave Goblin</c>

• <c>Blight Mamba</c>

• <c>Carrion Call</c>

• <c>Contagious Nim</c>

• <c>Corpse Cur</c>

• <c>Cystbearer</c>

• <c>Grafted Exoskeleton</c>

• <c>Hand of the Praetors</c>

• <c>Ichor Rats</c> - also produces poison counters when it comes into the battlefield.

• <c>Ichorclaw Myr</c>

• <c>Necropede</c>

• <c>Plague Stinger</c>

• <c>Putrefax</c>

• <c>Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon</c>

• <c>Tainted Strike</c>

• <c>Tangle Angler</c>

• <c>Tel-Jilad Fallen</c>

• <c>Vector Asp</c>

Mirrodin Besieged
• <c>Black Sun's Zenith</c>

• <c>Choking Fumes</c>

• <c>Gore Vassal</c>

• <c>Vedalken Anatomist</c>

• <c>Virulent Wound</c>

Infect
• <c>Blightwidow</c>

• <c>Core Prowler</c>

• <c>Corrupted Conscience</c>

• <c>Flensermite</c>

• <c>Flesh-Eater Imp</c>

• <c>Inkmoth Nexus</c>

• <c>Phyresis</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Crusader</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Digester</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Hydra</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Juggernaut</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Vatmother</c>

• <c>Plague Myr</c>

• <c>Priests of Norn</c>

• <c>Rot Wolf</c>

• <c>Scourge Servant</c>

• <c>Septic Rats</c>

• <c>Tine Shrike</c>

• <c>Viridian Corrupter</c>

New Phyrexia
• <c>Etched Monstrosity</c>

• <c>Grim Affliction</c>

• <c>Pith Driller</c>

Infect
• <c>Blighted Agent</c>

• <c>Chained Throatseeker</c>

• <c>Fallen Ferromancer</c>

• <c>Glistener Elf</c>

• <c>Glistening Oil</c>

• <c>Lost Leonin</c>

• <c>Ogre Menial</c>

• <c>Pestilent Souleater</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Swarmlord</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Unlife</c>

• <c>Razor Swine</c>

• <c> Reaper of Sheoldred</c>

• <c>Shriek Raptor</c>

• <c>Spinebiter</c>

• <c>Toxic Nim</c>

• <c>Triumph of the Hordes</c>

• <c>Viral Drake</c>

• <c>Viridian Betrayers</c>

• <c>Whispering Specter</c>

Amonkhet
• <c>Archfiend of Ifnir</c>

• <c>Baleful Ammit</c>

• <c>Cartouche of Ambition</c>

• <c>Channeler Initiate</c>

• <c>Consuming Fervor</c>

• <c>Crocodile of the Crossing</c>

• <c>Decimator Beetle</c>

• <c>Defiant Greatmaw</c>

• <c>Exemplar of Strength</c>

• <c>Festering Mummy</c>

• <c>Grasping Dunes</c>

• <c>Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons</c>

• <c>Liliana, Death Wielder</c>

• <c>Liliana's Influence</c>

• <c>Manticore of the Gauntlet</c>

• <c>Merciless Javelineer</c>

• <c>Ornery Kudu</c>

• <c>Plague Belcher</c>

• <c>Ruthless Sniper</c>

• <c>Soul-Scar Mage</c>

• <c>Soulstinger</c>

• <c>Splendid Agony</c>

• <c>Stinging Shot</c>

Hour of Devastation
• <c>Ammit Eternal</c>

• <c>Banewhip Punisher</c>

• <c>Blur of Blades</c>

• <c>Grind//Dust</c>

• <c>Ifnir Deadlands</c>

• <c>Lethal Sting</c>

• <c>Magmaroth</c>

• <c>Obelisk Spider</c>

• <c>The Scorpion God</c>

• <c>Torment of Venom</c>

Modern Horizons
• <c>Lesser Manticore</c>

• <c>Putrid Goblin</c>

• <c>Sadistic Obsession</c>

• <c>Yawgmoth, Thran Physician</c>

Commander 2019
• <c>River Kelpie</c>

• <c>Volrath, the Shapestealer</c>

Modern Horizons 2
• <c>Persist</c>