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Arcbound Tracker

Artifact Creature — Dog2 generic manaRed mana

Two mechanics that grew up in different eras of red-adjacent artifact design, fused into one Dog. Modular is the older half: the counters that arrive with the body are collateral, not a payoff, because they migrate to another artifact creature when this one dies, so the aggression it represents is always in transit rather than owned. The newer half is the storm-lite trigger that grows the creature every time you cast past your first spell in a turn, which quietly reframes what modular is for. Classic Arcbound creatures wanted to be sacrificed or blocked so the counters could relocate; this one wants to sit on the battlefield accruing while you empty your hand, and only then hand off a much larger pile than it entered with. Menace is the connective tissue between those two states, keeping the counters attacking through a board that would otherwise trade them off cheaply. The result is a creature whose value scales with density of casting rather than with combat math, and whose death is a feature: the more spells you chained, the bigger the parting gift to the next artifact body. It is red's take on a payoff that used to belong to durdlier artifact decks, wearing a spells-matter engine underneath an old counter-shifting frame.

Arcbound Tracker (j21)
J21 · #409common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.) Whenever you cast a spell other than your first spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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