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"Find me cards equivalent to: Bloatfly Swarm"

Equivalent cards to Bloatfly Swarm (Black, +1/+1 counters, damage prevention/removal):

  • Necroskitter – Black, Insect, interacts with +1/+1 counters, cares about counters (when creature with -1/-1 counter dies, return to battlefield.)
  • Serrated Biskelion – Colorless but often used in black decks, deals with +1/+1 counters, can remove them to deal damage.
  • Hex Parasite – Black, Insect, manipulates counters on permanents.

None has the exact text, but these are closest within black and with a +1/+1 counter/counter manipulation theme. Bloatfly Swarm is unique in the specifics of its damage prevention and rad counters.

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Bloatfly Swarm

Hex Parasite

Necroskitter

Serrated Biskelion

Bloatfly Swarm #42 Creature — Insect Mutant

Variations: v1 v2
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Info

Color:
Identifies:
Cost:
Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 0/0
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Insect
  • Mutant
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Radiation

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Any effects (such as proliferate) that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with rad counters.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Rad counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."

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    Cardkingdom / 3.99 USD 0.79 USD
    Manapool / 2.81 USD 0.41 USD
    Cardmarket 0.24 EUR / 1.61 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.46 USD / 4.22 USD

    Legalities

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    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/+1counteron it, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, then give each player a radcounterfor each +1/+1counterremoved this way.

    Hex Parasite #137 Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Insect

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Phyrexian
  • Insect
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If the permanent has multiple kinds of counters, you choose how many of each to remove when the ability resolves.
  • You may choose a value for X that’s greater than the number of counters on the targeted permanent. However, Hex Parasite only gets the bonus for counters actually removed.

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    Cardmarket 4.96 EUR / 15.99 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 34.66 USD 7.3 USD
    Cardkingdom / 27.99 USD 7.99 USD
    Manapool 5.58 USD / 21.06 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    : Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For eachcounterremoved this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

    Necroskitter #48 Creature — Elemental

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elemental
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Wither

    Rules

  • It doesn't matter how many -1/-1 counters were on the creature when it was put into a graveyard from the battlefield, as long as it had at least one.
  • It doesn't matter whose graveyard the creature is put into. It matters only that an opponent controlled it when it left the battlefield.
  • The card returns to the battlefield without any -1/-1 counters on it (unless some other effect causes it to enter with some).

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    Manapool 0.52 USD
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    Tcgplayer 0.98 USD
    Cardmarket 2.13 EUR

    Legalities

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    Text

    Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1counteron it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.

    Serrated Biskelion #WTH-156 Artifact Creature — Construct

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Construct
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If Serrated Biskelion leaves the battlefield before its ability resolves, you’ll still put a -1/-1 counter on the targeted creature. If the target leaves the battlefield or otherwise becomes an illegal target before the ability resolves, the ability doesn’t resolve and you won’t put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion.

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    Manapool 0.15 USD
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    Tcgplayer 0.14 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    : Put a -1/-1counteron this creature and a -1/-1counteron target creature.