Carnival Hellsteed
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Nightmare Horse
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 4
- Set
- Return to Ravnica #147 (rare)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
First strike, haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Carnival Hellsteed has 4 printings, first in Return to Ravnica (2012). EDHREC ranks it #24,287 among Commander cards. It appears most in Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch decks (167 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Carnival Hellsteed most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch: 167 decks
Often played with Carnival Hellsteed
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You make the choice to have the creature with unleash enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter or not as it’s entering the battlefield. At that point, it’s too late for a player to respond to the creature spell by trying to counter it, for example.
- : Putting a +1/+1 counter on a creature with unleash that’s already blocking won’t remove it from combat. It will continue to block.
- : The unleash ability applies no matter where the creature is entering the battlefield from.
- : A creature with unleash can’t block if it has any +1/+1 counter on it, not just one put on it by the unleash ability.