Core Prowler
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged #103 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.81 USD
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When this creature dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Core Prowler has 1 printing, first in Mirrodin Besieged (2011). EDHREC ranks it #7,729 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ingris Stingerquill decks (1,441 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Core Prowler most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ingris Stingerquill: 1,441 decks
- Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon: 1,254 decks
- Venser, Corpse Puppet: 523 decks
- The Scorpion God: 496 decks
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus: 401 decks
- Sun Quan, Lord of Wu: 292 decks
- Lulu, Stern Guardian: 104 decks
- Kinzu of the Bleak Coven: 68 decks
Often played with Core Prowler
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
- : Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- : If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- : An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- : If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- : To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.