Clockwork Avian

Artifact Creature    (CMC:5)

Flying Put four +1/+0 counters on Avian. After Avian attacks or blocks a creature, discard a counter. During his or her upkeep, controller may buy back lost counters for per counter; this taps Avian.

AQ • ENRandy Asplund-Faith

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Legal in: Legacy,Vintage,Commander

Oracle Text (click to copy):

Clockwork Avian {5} Artifact Creature — Bird Flying Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it. At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. {X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep. 0/4

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10/4/2004
Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
10/4/2004
Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
10/4/2004
If the ability to add counters resolves when there are already the maximum number of counters on it, any counters over the maximum are simply not added.

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