First printed in Darksteel (2004)
Artifact Creature — Horror
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto this creature.
Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
0/0
- Illustrated by
- Ittoku
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (2)
- The creature that’s targeted by Arcbound Fiend’s middle ability doesn’t have to have any +1/+1 counters on it. If it doesn’t have a counter on it when the ability resolves, nothing happens.
- If this creature gets enough -1/-1 counters put on it to cause its toughness to be 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), modular will put a number of +1/+1 counters on the target artifact creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature before it left the battlefield.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).
Combos
31 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Arcbound Ravager + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Viscera Seer
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Carrion Feeder + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Ashnod's Altar + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Bartolomé del Presidio + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Altar of Dementia + Arcbound Fiend + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Blasting Station + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Umbral Collar Zealot
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Arcbound Fiend + Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Woe Strider
