The following cards create -1/-1 counters.
By Set[ | ]
Arabian Nights[ | ]
- Unstable Mutation is the first enchantment - aura to use -1/-1 counters.
Fallen Empires[ | ]
- Thelon's Chant and Tourach's Chant are the first non-aura enchantments to use -1/-1 counters.
Ice Age[ | ]
- Skeleton Ship is the first creature to produce -1/-1 counters, as well as being the first multicolored and first legendary creature to do so. It is also the first creature that could tap to produce -1/-1 counters.
Homelands[ | ]
- Giant Oyster
- Retribution is the first sorcery to produce -1/-1 counters.
- Serrated Arrows is the first artifact to produce -1/-1 counters. It also uses arrowhead counters.
- Torture
Alliances[ | ]
- Misfortune is the first sorcery to produce +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.
- Wandering Mage is the first creature that could produce -1/-1 counters for a mana cost.
Mirage[ | ]
- Harbinger of Night is the first creature to put a -1/-1 counter on all creatures.
Visions[ | ]
- Lichenthrope is the first creature to receive -1/-1 counters in place of damage which is similar to wither but is for all damage not just combat damage.
- Matopi Golem is the first artifact creature to receive a -1/-1 counter as part of payment to regenerate itself.
Weatherlight[ | ]
- Aboroth is the first creature to produce -1/-1 and age counters.
- Serrated Biskelion is the first artifact creature to produce -1/-1 counters.
Tempest[ | ]
- Fevered Convulsions
- Segmented Wurm is the first creature, as well as the first multicolored creature, to gain 1/-1 counters when it is the target of a spell or ability.
Mercadian Masques[ | ]
- Quagmire Lamprey is the first creature to put -1/-1 counters on creatures blocked by it.
Torment[ | ]
- Shambling Swarm is the first creature that distributed -1/-1 counters upon its death.
Shadowmoor[ | ]
-1/-1 counters were a big theme in the set.[1][2][3]
- Barrenton Medic
- Biting Tether
- Blowfly Infestation
- Chainbreaker
- Cinderhaze Wretch
- Cultbrand Cinder
- Devoted Druid
- Dusk Urchins
- Flourishing Defenses
- Gnarled Effigy
- Grief Tyrant
- Grim Poppet
- Heartmender removes -1/-1 counters from every creature you control during your upkeep in addition to having persist.
- Incremental Blight
- Leech Bonder
- Morselhoarder
- Puncture Bolt
- Scar
- Scarscale Ritual
- Sinking Feeling
- Wicker Warcrawler
- Woeleecher
Persist[ | ]
Creatures with persist return to the battlefield under their owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on them if they had no -1/-1 counters on them when they died.
- Cauldron of Souls is the first artifact that granted persist until end of turn.
- Furystoke Giant
- Gravelgill Axeshark
- Kitchen Finks
- Murderous Redcap
- Puppeteer Clique
- Rattleblaze Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature.
- River Kelpie
- Safehold Elite
- Scuzzback Marauders
- Twilight Shepherd
- Wingrattle Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature.
- Woodfall Primus
Wither[ | ]
Creatures with wither dealt damage in the form of -1/-1 counters.
- Blazethorn Scarecrow
- Blight Sickle is the first equipment to grant wither.
- Boggart Ram-Gang
- Cinderbones
- Corrosive Mentor also grants wither to all black creatures you control.
- Everlasting Torment
- Fists of the Demigod
- Inescapable Brute
- Juvenile Gloomwidow
- Kulrath Knight
- Lockjaw Snapper
- Midnight Banshee
- Oona's Gatewarden
- Rustrazor Butcher
- Scuzzback Scrapper
- Sickle Ripper
- Slinking Giant
- Thornwatch Scarecrow has wither as long as you control a green creature.
- Tower Above is the first sorcery to grant wither.
- Wildslayer Elves
- Witherscale Wurm
Eventide[ | ]
- A cycle of uncommon 6/6 Elemental creatures with a cost of
M come into play with four -1/-1 counters on it — Voracious Hatchling, Belligerent Hatchling, Shrewd Hatchling, Sturdy Hatchling, and Noxious Hatchling.
- Bloodied Ghost
- Canker Abomination
- Crumbling Ashes is the first enchantment that destroys a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Deity of Scars
- Gwyllion Hedge-Mage
- Hatchet Bully
- Hotheaded Giant
- Pyrrhic Revival
- Quillspike
- Soul Snuffers
- Wickerbough Elder
Persist[ | ]
Wither[ | ]
Creatures with wither deal damage in the form of -1/-1 counters.
Scars of Mirrodin[ | ]
Infect[ | ]
Creatures with infect deal damage in the form of -1/-1 counters and poison counters.
- Blackcleave Goblin
- Blight Mamba
- Carrion Call
- Contagious Nim
- Corpse Cur
- Cystbearer
- Grafted Exoskeleton
- Hand of the Praetors
- Ichor Rats - also produces poison counters when it comes into the battlefield.
- Ichorclaw Myr
- Necropede
- Plague Stinger
- Putrefax
- Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
- Tainted Strike
- Tangle Angler
- Tel-Jilad Fallen
- Vector Asp
Mirrodin Besieged[ | ]
Infect[ | ]
New Phyrexia[ | ]
Infect[ | ]
- Blighted Agent
- Chained Throatseeker
- Fallen Ferromancer
- Glistener Elf
- Glistening Oil
- Lost Leonin
- Ogre Menial
- Pestilent Souleater
- Phyrexian Swarmlord
- Phyrexian Unlife
- Razor Swine
- Reaper of Sheoldred
- Shriek Raptor
- Spinebiter
- Toxic Nim
- Triumph of the Hordes
- Viral Drake
- Viridian Betrayers
- Whispering Specter
Amonkhet[ | ]
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Baleful Ammit
- Cartouche of Ambition
- Channeler Initiate
- Consuming Fervor
- Crocodile of the Crossing
- Decimator Beetle
- Defiant Greatmaw
- Exemplar of Strength
- Festering Mummy
- Grasping Dunes
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
- Liliana, Death Wielder
- Liliana's Influence
- Manticore of the Gauntlet
- Merciless Javelineer
- Ornery Kudu
- Plague Belcher
- Ruthless Sniper
- Soul-Scar Mage
- Soulstinger
- Splendid Agony
- Stinging Shot
Hour of Devastation[ | ]
Modern Horizons[ | ]
Commander 2019[ | ]
Modern Horizons 2[ | ]
Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate[ | ]
Unfinity[ | ]
References[ | ]
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (April 14, 2008). "Shadowmoor than Meets The Eye, Part III". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 12, 2008). "-1/-1 Singular Sensation". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Doug Beyer (May 14, 2008). "A Tasty Buffet of -1/-1 Counters". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.