Hardened Scales
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Combos with Hardened Scales
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.
- Mindless Automaton Wizard Class Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Experiment Kraj Devoted Druid Infinite
- Infinite green mana
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Triskelion Scythe of the Wretched Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Marath, Will of the Wild Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Marath, Will of the Wild Mana Echoes Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature tokens that are infinitely large
- Marath, Will of the Wild Cryptic Trilobite Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-09-01
Each additional Hardened Scales you control will increase the number of +1/+1 counters placed on a creature you control by one.
- 2023-09-01
If a creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it, it enters with that many plus one instead.
- 2023-09-01
If two or more effects attempt to modify how many counters would be put on a creature you control, you choose the order to apply those effects, no matter who controls the sources of those effects.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Hardened Scales, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakbal of the Surging Soul | 3 | 0 | — |
| Pizza Face, Gastromancer | 1 | 2 | — |
| Samut, Voice of Dissent | 1 | 1 | — |
| Tromell, Seymour's Butler | 1 | 1 | — |
| Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kudo, King Among Bears | 1 | 0 | — |
| Mowu, Loyal Companion | 1 | 0 | — |
| Slinza, the Spiked Stampede | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 4 decks
- Mono-Green 2 decks
- Selesnya 2 decks
- Golgari 1 deck
- Gruul 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Naya 1 deck
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Hardened Scales
19 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.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $3.66
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $18.94
- Foil
- $19.61
- Normal
- $2.24
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $3.30
- Foil
- $6.63
Extended Art
- Normal
- $6.77
- Foil
- $6.99
- Foil
- $9.99
Extended Art
- Foil
- $13.25
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $3.64
Showcase
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Normal
- $5.20
- Foil
- $9.21
- Normal
- $3.85
- Foil
- $9.59
- Normal
- $2.76
- Foil
- $4.37
Inverted
- Normal
- $5.13
- Foil
- $5.14
Etched
- Etched
- $5.61
Commander Anthology Volume II
- Normal
- $2.88
Commander 2016
- Normal
- $2.33
Khans of Tarkir
- Normal
- $4.43
- Foil
- $4.65
Promo
Khans of Tarkir Promos
- Normal
- $4.28
- Foil
- $5.00
Promo
Khans of Tarkir Promos
- Foil
- $7.55
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Hardened Scales — 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.