Deck tag: +1/+1 Counters

What are +1/+1 counters in Magic?

• Hardened Scales
• Walking Ballista
• Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

A +1/+1 counter raises a creature's power and toughness by one, and unlike temporary pump effects, it stays until the creature leaves the battlefield or something removes it. Mechanics like evolve, outlast, adapt, and modular all utilize +1 counters.

Hardened Scales and Winding Constrictor add an extra counter each time counters are placed, while Doubling Season and Branching Evolution double them outright. Atraxa's famous proliferate effect grows every permanent that already has a counter, and Walking Ballista turns these stored counters into ping damage.

Aliases: buff proliferate