Bloatfly Swarm
Creature — Insect MutantPower and toughness0/0
Card 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/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, then give each player a rad counter for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.
Showing Fallout#42
Price
2.46 $
Foil 4.02 $
8 printings
Daily estimate from Scryfall, not a shop quote.
Bloatfly Swarm rulings
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.
Rad counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
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 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.
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."
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.
Any effects (such as proliferate) that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with rad counters.
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.
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.
Bloatfly Swarm keyword rules
Flying Rule 702.9
Flying is an evasion ability.
A creature with flying can’t be blocked except by creatures with flying and/or reach. A creature with flying can block a creature with or without flying. (See rule , “Declare Blockers Step,” and rule , “Reach.”)
Multiple instances of flying on the same creature are redundant.
Bloatfly Swarm format legality
Constructed
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- Future StandardNot legal
Eternal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
Commander
- CommanderLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
Arena & online
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- Competitive BrawlNot legal
Other
- TLRNot legal
All printings of Bloatfly Swarm 8
Cards similar to Bloatfly Swarm
Infesting RadroachCreature — Insect Mutant
Insectoid ExterminatorCreature — Insect Mutant
NecrosquitoCreature — Phyrexian Insect
Heartstabber MosquitoCreature — Insect
Jagwasp SwarmCreature — Insect
Foundry HornetCreature — Insect
Buzzard-Wasp ColonyCreature — Bird Insect
Swarm CullerCreature — Insect Warrior
Fumulus, the InfestationLegendary Creature — Vampire Insect
Canoptek Scarab SwarmArtifact Creature — Insect
Show 20 more similar cards
Screeching ScorchbeastCreature — Bat Mutant
Swarm of BloodfliesCreature — Insect
Devouring SwarmCreature — Insect
Great Fierce BeeCreature — Insect
Giant FlyCreature — Insect
Carrion LocustCreature — Insect Horror
Swarm, Being of BeesLegendary Creature — Insect Villain
Kraul SwarmCreature — Insect Warrior
Spire ManglerCreature — Insect
Speedbrood StalkerCreature — Insect Assassin
Plague StingerCreature — Phyrexian Insect Horror
Swamp MosquitoCreature — Insect
Fog of GnatsCreature — Insect
Delta BloodfliesCreature — Insect
Wasp of the Bitter EndCreature — Insect Horror
Swarm of LocusCreature — Insect Locus
Pestilent SyphonerCreature — Phyrexian Insect
Zanikev LocustCreature — Insect
Bog HumbugsCreature — Insect
StirgeCreature — Insect Bat