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Tatterkite

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow3 generic mana

The second line is the entire reason this evader exists, and it reads stranger today than when it was printed. "This creature can't have counters put on it" was a niche defensive clause in an era that leaned on -1/-1 counters as a set-wide removal vector: a Scarecrow that simply ignored the shrink effects flooding the environment, untouchable by the wither-style chip damage that defined fights at the time. The 2/1 body is plain and the flying is just flying; the prohibition is the whole identity. What makes the card more durable than its modest stats suggest is how that clause aged into a different kind of relevance. Counters became one of Magic's central engines, and the effects that disrupt creatures through them multiplied: proliferate, infect, the various "put a counter on it" removal lines. Against all of that, Tatterkite is permanently immune by rules text, no response required. The constraint that keeps a hard immunity in check is that it cuts both ways: you can still pump it with a Giant Growth, suit it up with equipment, or buff it under an anthem, but you can never grow it with +1/+1 counters, never adapt or monstrosity it, never let proliferate work in your favor. The design is a clean trade: total resistance to one category of effect, in exchange for never benefiting from that same category. It is the rare creature whose best use is sometimes as a deliberate non-target rather than a threat.

Tatterkite (shm)
SHM · #264uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.40
Foil: $3.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying This creature can't have counters put on it.
Legalities

Format Status

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