-1/-1 counter/List of cards

-1/-1 counter

List of cards

The following cards create -1/-1 counters.

### Fallen Empires

* Thelon's Chant and Tourach's Chant are the first non-aura enchantments to use -1/-1 counters.

### Ice Age

* Skeleton Ship is the first creature to produce -1/-1 counters, as well as being the first multicolored and first legendary creature to do so. It is also the first creature that could tap to produce -1/-1 counters.

### Homelands

* Giant Oyster
* Retribution is the first sorcery to produce -1/-1 counters.
* Serrated Arrows is the first artifact to produce -1/-1 counters. It also uses arrowhead counters.
* Torture

### Alliances

* Misfortune is the first sorcery to produce +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.
* Wandering Mage is the first creature that could produce -1/-1 counters for a mana cost.

### Mirage

* Harbinger of Night is the first creature to put a -1/-1 counter on all creatures.

### Visions

* Lichenthrope is the first creature to receive -1/-1 counters in place of damage which is similar to wither but is for all damage not just combat damage.
* Matopi Golem is the first artifact creature to receive a -1/-1 counter as part of payment to regenerate itself.

### Weatherlight

* Aboroth is the first creature to produce -1/-1 and age counters.
* Serrated Biskelion is the first artifact creature to produce -1/-1 counters.

### Tempest

* Fevered Convulsions
* Segmented Wurm is the first creature, as well as the first multicolored creature, to gain 1/-1 counters when it is the target of a spell or ability.

### Mercadian Masques

* Quagmire Lamprey is the first creature to put -1/-1 counters on creatures blocked by it.

### Torment

* Shambling Swarm is the first creature that distributed -1/-1 counters upon its death.

### Shadowmoor

-1/-1 counters were a big theme in the set.
* Barrenton Medic
* Biting Tether
* Blowfly Infestation
* Chainbreaker
* Cinderhaze Wretch
* Cultbrand Cinder
* Devoted Druid
* Dusk Urchins
* Flourishing Defenses
* Gnarled Effigy
* Grief Tyrant
* Grim Poppet
* Heartmender removes -1/-1 counters from every creature you control during your upkeep in addition to having persist.
* Incremental Blight
* Leech Bonder
* Morselhoarder
* Puncture Bolt
* Scar
* Scarscale Ritual
* Sinking Feeling
* Wicker Warcrawler
* Woeleecher

#### Persist

Creatures with persist return to the battlefield under their owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on them if they had no -1/-1 counters on them when they died.

* Cauldron of Souls is the first artifact that granted persist until end of turn.
* Furystoke Giant
* Gravelgill Axeshark
* Kitchen Finks
* Murderous Redcap
* Puppeteer Clique
* Rattleblaze Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature.
* River Kelpie
* Safehold Elite
* Scuzzback Marauders
* Twilight Shepherd
* Wingrattle Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature.
* Woodfall Primus

#### Wither

Creatures with wither dealt damage in the form of -1/-1 counters.

* Blazethorn Scarecrow
* Blight Sickle is the first equipment to grant wither.
* Boggart Ram-Gang
* Cinderbones
* Corrosive Mentor also grants wither to all black creatures you control.
* Everlasting Torment
* Fists of the Demigod
* Inescapable Brute
* Juvenile Gloomwidow
* Kulrath Knight
* Lockjaw Snapper
* Midnight Banshee
* Oona's Gatewarden
* Rustrazor Butcher
* Scuzzback Scrapper
* Sickle Ripper
* Slinking Giant
* Thornwatch Scarecrow has wither as long as you control a green creature.
* Tower Above is the first sorcery to grant wither.
* Wildslayer Elves
* Witherscale Wurm

### Eventide

* A cycle of uncommon 6/6 Elemental creatures with a cost of M come into play with four -1/-1 counters on it — Voracious Hatchling, Belligerent Hatchling, Shrewd Hatchling, Sturdy Hatchling, and Noxious Hatchling.

* Bloodied Ghost
* Canker Abomination
* Crumbling Ashes is the first enchantment that destroys a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.
* Deity of Scars
* Gwyllion Hedge-Mage
* Hatchet Bully
* Hotheaded Giant
* Pyrrhic Revival
* Quillspike
* Soul Snuffers
* Wickerbough Elder

#### Persist

* Aerie Ouphes
* Antler Skulkin
* Cauldron Haze
* Glen Elendra Archmage
* Grazing Kelpie
* Kithkin Spellduster
* Lingering Tormentor
* Rendclaw Trow, also has wither.
* Restless Apparition
* Trapjaw Kelpie

#### Wither

Creatures with wither deal damage in the form of -1/-1 counters.

* Duergar Cave-Guard
* Fang Skulkin
* Harvest Gwyllion
* Hateflayer
* Necroskitter
* Needle Specter
* Puncture Blast
* Smoldering Butcher
* Stigma Lasher
* Twinblade Slasher
* Woodlurker Mimic

### Scars of Mirrodin

* Carnifex Demon
* Contagion Clasp
* Contagion Engine
* Fume Spitter
* Instill Infection
* Skinrender

#### Infect

Creatures with infect deal damage in the form of -1/-1 counters and poison counters.

* Blackcleave Goblin
* Blight Mamba
* Carrion Call
* Contagious Nim
* Corpse Cur
* Cystbearer
* Grafted Exoskeleton
* Hand of the Praetors
* Ichor Rats - also produces poison counters when it comes into the battlefield.
* Ichorclaw Myr
* Necropede
* Plague Stinger
* Putrefax
* Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
* Tainted Strike
* Tangle Angler
* Tel-Jilad Fallen
* Vector Asp

### Mirrodin Besieged

* Black Sun's Zenith
* Choking Fumes
* Gore Vassal
* Vedalken Anatomist
* Virulent Wound

#### Infect

* Blightwidow
* Core Prowler
* Corrupted Conscience
* Flensermite
* Flesh-Eater Imp
* Inkmoth Nexus
* Phyresis
* Phyrexian Crusader
* Phyrexian Digester
* Phyrexian Hydra
* Phyrexian Juggernaut
* Phyrexian Vatmother
* Plague Myr
* Priests of Norn
* Rot Wolf
* Scourge Servant
* Septic Rats
* Tine Shrike
* Viridian Corrupter

### New Phyrexia

* Etched Monstrosity
* Grim Affliction
* Pith Driller

#### Infect

* Blighted Agent
* Chained Throatseeker
* Fallen Ferromancer
* Glistener Elf
* Glistening Oil
* Lost Leonin
* Ogre Menial
* Pestilent Souleater
* Phyrexian Swarmlord
* Phyrexian Unlife
* Razor Swine
* Reaper of Sheoldred
* Shriek Raptor
* Spinebiter
* Toxic Nim
* Triumph of the Hordes
* Viral Drake
* Viridian Betrayers
* Whispering Specter

### Amonkhet

* Archfiend of Ifnir
* Baleful Ammit
* Cartouche of Ambition
* Channeler Initiate
* Consuming Fervor
* Crocodile of the Crossing
* Decimator Beetle
* Defiant Greatmaw
* Exemplar of Strength
* Festering Mummy
* Grasping Dunes
* Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
* Liliana, Death Wielder
* Liliana's Influence
* Manticore of the Gauntlet
* Merciless Javelineer
* Ornery Kudu
* Plague Belcher
* Ruthless Sniper
* Soul-Scar Mage
* Soulstinger
* Splendid Agony
* Stinging Shot

### Hour of Devastation

* Ammit Eternal
* Banewhip Punisher
* Blur of Blades
* Grind//Dust
* Ifnir Deadlands
* Lethal Sting
* Magmaroth
* Obelisk Spider
* The Scorpion God
* Torment of Venom

### Modern Horizons

* Lesser Masticore
* Putrid Goblin
* Sadistic Obsession
* Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

### Commander 2019

* River Kelpie
* Volrath, the Shapestealer

### Unfinity

* Attempted Murder
* Six-Sided Die

## References

1. ↑ Mark Rosewater (April 14, 2008). "*Shadowmoor* than Meets The Eye, Part III". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
2. ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 12, 2008). "-1/-1 Singular Sensation". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
3. ↑ Doug Beyer (May 14, 2008). "A Tasty Buffet of -1/-1 Counters". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.