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Hangarback Walker

Artifact Creature — Construct MV 0

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What it does

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

1, T: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Combos with Hangarback Walker

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2015-06-22

    If enough -1/-1 counters are put on Hangarback Walker at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less, the number of +1/+1 counters on it before it got any -1/-1 counters will be used to determine how many Thopter tokens you get. For example, if there are three +1/+1 counters on Hangarback Walker and it gets four -1/-1 counters, you'll get three Thopter tokens. That's because Hangarback Walker's triggered ability checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.

  • 2015-06-22

    The value of each X in Hangarback Walker's mana cost must be equal. For example, if X is 2, you'll pay 4 to cast Hangarback Walker and it will enter the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Hangarback Walker, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 7
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Kilo, Apogee Mind 1 0 —
Urza, Lord High Artificer 1 0 —
Zaxara, the Exemplary 1 0 —
Zhulodok, Void Gorger 1 0 —
Zimone, Infinite Analyst 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Colorless 1 deck
  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Simic 1 deck
  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Hangarback Walker

8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Hangarback Walker — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.