Shell counter

Shell counter

Counter
Use	Upkeep tracking for creature power-up
Placed on	Creatures
Introduced	Weatherlight
Last used	Weatherlight
Statistics
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Shell counter are a type of counter introduced in Weatherlight. They act as upkeep tracking for a creature becoming more powerful after several turns.

Description[ | ]

Shell counters first appeared on Roc Hatchling in Weatherlight. It enters the battlefield with 4 shell counters on it with one being removed on each upkeep. After all shell counters are removed, the creature gains additional power/toughness and flying. This represents the creature breaking out of its shell to finish hatching.

Trivia[ | ]

In Magic Online, the counter is colored orange as its considered a negative effect and it shares an icon with Egg, Hatchling, Hoofprint, Incarnation and Prey counters.^[1]

References[ | ]

↑ Christopher Bellach (September 5, 2018). "Counter Development in Magic Online". magicthegathering.com. Archived from the original on October 11, 2022.

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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 Bait Blessing Blight Bloodline Bloodstain Book Bore Brain Bribery Burden Cage Carrion Chip Chorus Contested Credit Croak Crystal Component Corruption Cube Currency Death Descent Despair Discovery Dread Duty Echo Elixir Ember Enlightened Eruption Everything Eyeball Eyestalk Feeding Fellowship Filibuster Foreshadow Funk Fury Gem Ghostform Globe Glyph Hack Harmony Hatching Hone Hoofprint Hope Hourglass Hunger Husk Impostor Incarnation Incubation Influence Ingenuity Intel Intervention Isolation Invitation Javelin Kick Knickknack Knowledge Loot Magnet 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 Pop! Possession Prey Pupa Rejection Reprieve Rev Revival Ribbon Ritual Rope Rust Scroll Shell Shoe Shred Skewer Silver Sleep Sleight Slumber Soot Spark Spite Stash Story Strife Supply Suspect Takeover Task Theft Third-degree-burn Tower Training Trap Treasure Unity Unlock Valor Vitality Vortex Vow Voyage Wage Winch

Test card counters	Art Base power Base toughness Day Glass Hole Manabond Milk Primeval Rebuilding Release Resonance Shy Stroopwafel Token

See also	Full list of all counter types Deprecated counters Unreleased counter mechanics

Shell counter

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