Chamber Sentry

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Artifact Creature — Construct

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.

Magic the Gathering symbol, Magic the Gathering symbol, Remove X +1/+1 counters from this creature: It deals X damage to any target.

Magic the Gathering symbolMagic the Gathering symbolMagic the Gathering symbolMagic the Gathering symbolMagic the Gathering symbol: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

qAdam Paquette
standard
Not Legal
alchemy
Not Legal
pioneer
Legal
explorer
Legal
modern
Legal
historic
Legal
standard brawl
Not Legal
historic brawl
Legal
timeless
Legal

Rulings

You can choose any value for X as you cast Chamber Sentry. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of +1/+1 counters Chamber Sentry enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it.
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If Chamber Sentry enters the battlefield without being cast, it receives no +1/+1 counters.
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If an effect allows you to spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast Chamber Sentry, you consider only the actual mana spent to determine how many counters it receives.
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If another creature enters the battlefield as a copy of Chamber Sentry, consider what mana was spent to cast that creature to determine how many +1/+1 counters it enters with.
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Colorless mana won't give Chamber Sentry another +1/+1 counter. Colorless is not a color.
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The value of X chosen when you activate Chamber Sentry's first activated ability doesn't have to be the same value of X that you chose when you cast it.
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