Arcbound Fiend

Darksteel • #96 • uncommon

Artifact Creature — Horror |

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Live Value $0.36

Foil Multiplier: 9.94x Premium Factor 🔥

Reprint Profile:

Never Reprinted MINIMAL

Never reprinted since its original release.

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Dealer Buylist (Foil):

$0.75

Buy/Sell Spread:

vs $2.49 retail 70% WIDE

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Arcbound Fiend

Darksteel • #96 • uncommon

Current Valuation

$0.36

30-Day Market Trend

Rarity

uncommon

Set Origin

DST

Daily Shift

0.00%

EDHREC Rank

#13,279

Mana Cost

Oracle Data

Card Type Artifact Creature — Horror

Color Identity Colorless

Power / Toughness 0 / 0

🖋️ Curator's Notes

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto this creature.

Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

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Official Judge Precedents

2 Precedents

2004-12-01

The creature that’s targeted by Arcbound Fiend’s middle ability doesn’t have to have any +1/+1 counters on it. If it doesn’t have a counter on it when the ability resolves, nothing happens.

2006-09-25

If this creature gets enough -1/-1 counters put on it to cause its toughness to be 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), modular will put a number of +1/+1 counters on the target artifact creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature before it left the battlefield.

📜 Technical Attributes

Release Date: 2004-02-06

Set Name: Darksteel

Artist Reference: Ittoku

Border Profile: black

✨ Variants & Finishes

Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil

Promo Status NO

Edition Status Original Printing