Skullbriar

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Nº 227 - RARE - Commander 2011 Launch Party
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Whenever Skullbriar, the Walking Grave deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player’s hand or library.

PCMD · EN Nils Hamm
2011-06-17

standard
future
historic
timeless
gladiator
pioneer
explorer
modern
legacy
pauper
vintage
penny
commander
oathbreaker
standardbrawl
brawl
alchemy
paupercommander
duel
oldschool
premodern
predh
usdeurfoiltix
34.43
EDHREC
Rareza Tipo Color Cmc L/T
Legendary Creature — Zombie Elemental 2 1/1
Foil Nonfoil Promo Fecha
★ ✗ 2011-06-17
Booster Digital Oversized Reserved
✗ ✗ ✓ ✗
Paper Mtgo Digital Astral Sega
✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
Keywords
Set Name Set Code Set Type
Commander 2011 Launch Party PCMD MEMORABILIA
release: setsize: 5 totalsetsize: 5
onlyFoil: yes onlyNonFoil: no
Nombre ID
BORDER COLOR BLACK
FRAME 2003
Date Source Comment
22-09-2011 wotc If a card becomes a copy of Skullbriar, counters will remain on that card when it leaves the battlefield (unless it goes to your hand or library). Once it does so, it stops being a copy of Skullbriar, so those counters will cease to exist when that card next changes zones.
22-09-2011 wotc The counters that remain on Skullbriar as it changes zones aren't "placed" on Skullbriar. Effects like Doubling Season's and Melira, Sylvok Outcast's won't affect those counters.
22-09-2011 wotc Skullbriar retains all counters, not just +1/+1 counters.
22-09-2011 wotc Skullbriar will get one +1/+1 counter each time it deals combat damage to a player (including you if its combat damage gets redirected), regardless of how much damage is dealt.
22-09-2011 wotc Counters that adjust power and/or toughness affect Skullbriar's power and/or toughness in zones other than the battlefield. For example, a Skullbriar in the command zone with a +1/+1 counter on it will be 2/2.
22-09-2011 wotc Effects that last "for as long as that creature has a [kind of] counter on it," such as Aven Mimeomancer's, stop applying to Skullbriar once it leaves the battlefield. Even though Skullbriar retains the counters, it becomes a new object with no relation to its last existence in its previous zone.
22-09-2011 wotc Skullbriar's last ability only works if it has that ability in the zone it's moving from. For example, with Yixlid Jailer ("Cards in graveyards lose all abilities") on the battlefield, a Skullbriar with a counter on it in a graveyard loses that counter when it's put onto the battlefield. Conversely, that Skullbriar moving from the graveyard to the battlefield would retain that counter if Humility ("All creatures lose all abilities and are 1/1") were on the battlefield; if Skullbriar then left the battlefield with Humility still on the battlefield, it would lose the counter.