Hangarback Walker
- Mana cost
- {X}{X}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 0
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #348 (rare)
- Price
- $0.34 USD
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Hangarback Walker has 9 printings, first in Magic Origins (2015). EDHREC ranks it #1,509 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kilo, Apogee Mind decks (8,896 on EDHREC). 4 public decks on TCG run it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Hangarback Walker
- 20 Ways to Win, led by Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
- Counter Intelligence - Edge of Eternities Commander Deck, led by Kilo, Apogee Mind
- Eldrazi Unbound - Commander Masters, led by Zhulodok, Void Gorger
- Quandrix Unlimited - Secrets of Strixhaven, led by Zimone, Infinite Analyst
Commanders that run Hangarback Walker most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kilo, Apogee Mind: 8,896 decks
- Zimone, Infinite Analyst: 4,686 decks
- Breya, Etherium Shaper: 4,132 decks
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate: 2,223 decks
- Ragost, Deft Gastronaut: 2,106 decks
- The Capitoline Triad: 1,623 decks
- Arcum Dagsson: 1,426 decks
- Sai, Master Thopterist: 1,205 decks
Often played with Hangarback Walker
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If enough -1/-1 counters are put on Hangarback Walker at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less, the number of +1/+1 counters on it before it got any -1/-1 counters will be used to determine how many Thopter tokens you get. For example, if there are three +1/+1 counters on Hangarback Walker and it gets four -1/-1 counters, you'll get three Thopter tokens. That's because Hangarback Walker's triggered ability checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
- : The value of each X in Hangarback Walker's mana cost must be equal. For example, if X is 2, you'll pay {4} to cast Hangarback Walker and it will enter the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.