Tutorial - How to play Magic: The Gathering - Part 8: Tokens & Counters
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- Want to learn how to play Magic: The Gathering? Then look no further! This tutorial series will teach you everything you need to know in order to play your first games of Magic.
In Part 8 we have a look at tokens and counters. Tokens are markers used to represent creatures which don't have a card and counters are markers used as reminders on cards. Join us as we explore the rules and see the best ways to use them in our games of magic!
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This will be an epic en-counter!
Brilliant tutorial! Thanks!
Glad you like it!
Good vid. Never got how creature tokens worked till now. Thanks.
Love these videos! So easy to follow great for beginners, thank you
Building me a scute swarm deck paired with Dollhouse of Horrors thats gonna be a lot of tokens/counters
Do I have to have the token card such as the goblin for example or can I use a penny or something along those lines to represent the token?
You don't need the token card. You can use anything you like but we would not recommend penny's as they are round and then you have no idea if the creature is tapped or not.
Thank you... also if you have the time I would love if you could visit my deck that I made and tell me how good it is... its budget by the way current price is 15.68 USD tappedout.net/mtg-decks/white-tokenservo/
We would love to help out but because of time constraints we can't evaluate viewers submitted decks...sorry!
Dont worry about it... you guys have a great day and have a fantastic week! Keep up the good work we all appreciate it.
Looks like a cool/fun deck. ;)
With the token cards, do they count into your 60 card deck or are they generally placed within reach should the need arise for them?
Token cards are placed within reach. They don't count towards the cards in your deck and are not in your library.
so do tokens attack same turn they come into the battle or have summoning sickness?
Token creatures are exactly the same as card creatures and as such follow the same rules. They cannot attack as they suffer form summoning sickness.
Thanks, I will use your method of presentation to teach my friends cause it seems it is a difficult concept to explain. A creature but it isn't a card? haha I swear its one of the harder things to explain to new players
You think that's hard? Try explaining that they can't have their creatures attack specific creatures of their opponent. :D
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Fuk, I still don’t get it. I’m new to the game and trying to learn right now
New here - If something say create a creature token, mana token, artifact, etc - how do you create it? paper? I assume token cards dont go in your deck right?
So you don't have to have tokens in your deck to use them?
Just throwing the idea out there because it's a deck I want to see. Karn, Silver Golem. If nothing else thought it would be a fun challenge for you guys even if it doesn't turn out to be a successful project.
That does sound like quite the challenge Christian Ernst. We can't make any promises but we will discuss it in the group ;).
Can we please have more deck profiles of budget Standard format decks?
Sorry +Jessie Pinedo, but we will not be doing budget standard deck techs. The reason is that they rotate out after a while and we want our videos to always be legal to play.
Hi David, can you please make a video on regeneration? Thanks in advance.
The problem with regeneration is that is has been replaced with Indestructible. No new creatures will ever have the regeneration mechanic. So it's only relevant for people playing with older sets. So we could post a short explanation of it on our Twitter and Facebook but we won't dedicate a whole video to it. Sorry about that :/
So if a creature inside your library gets a counter on it, how are you supposed to keep track of it? Just remember? Magic marker?
Do tokens suffer from summoning sickness or can they attack right away?
Tokens count as creatures and as such suffer from summoning sickness.
Thanks! By the way, will you be doing a series on three color decks? I just finished watching all the 2 color decks and I loved them!
They were not very popular so probably not :(
Great video! Helped me out a lot. When is part 9 going to be out?
Hi Joseph Radwan, it will come out the 18th of July.
Budget MTG Decks thanks!!!
Does a token count as a card in your deck
I have vorel of the hull clade and was wondering spells like growth that add 3/3 to a creature counted towards vorel abilities to multiply the counters on a creature even if its a temporary 1 turn bonus
Hi Carlos, adding +3/+3 till the end of turn does not work because it does not add counters. Only counters can be doubled.
@@BudgetMTGDecks thanks i was very confused by this
So D4 dice would be good tokens.
Hi budget mtg deck
you have forgot a little detail on your tutorial :D
I have did my research
MTG rule book
121.3. If a permanent has both a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter on it, N +1/+1 and N -1/-1 counters are removed from it as a state-based action, where N is the smaller of the number of +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on it.
example: if a creature have 2. +1+1 counters on in it and there's a -1-1 counter place on that creature, you remove the +1+1 counter and the -1-1 counter from that creature and that creature is missing 1. +1+1 on it,
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so what I mean, there 2 +1+1 counters on that creature and you place a -1 -1 counter on that creature, that 1. -1-1 counter and that 1. +1+1 counter, there gone because they remove each other out of the game.
Thanks everyone for reading my comment :D
Hi, we actually omit many rules in our tutorial videos. The reason why is because we only want to teach the very minimum possible for new players to be able to play their first games. Including all the rules would be overkill and only serve to confuse people trying to get into the game.
oh ok, I did not now sorry about that.
do you want me to delete this comment? :D
Haha no you don't have to delete it. If people are curious and read the comments after watching the video they should be fine ;).
Okay so I’m new and just starting out in magic and I have a question about counters… if a +1\+1 from a creature effect is placed on a target creature you control but has the condition of “when enters the battlefield” or says something like “when this creature attacks place a +1/+1 on all attacking creatures that already have a +1/+1 counter on it” do those counters drop off at the end phase or do they stay on the creature?
An example card would be “Oran-Rief Ooze”. If they stay on does that mean that they stack on one another? Like I attack it gets its counters and on my next turn I attack again and they keep the counters from the previous turn plus one for the current turn? I’m just trying to get a specific understanding. I just bought a Vampire Commander Deck and it’s got A LOT of +1/+1 effects in it.
I know this video is 5 years old but does really putting a minus token can destroy an indestructible?
I have a question about a combo in magic combining a new card with a classic card. Here it is: I want to summon phyrexian dreadnaught by sacrificing worldspine wurm which is already in play it has power surpassing 12 so it is sacrificed, by doing this I summon Phyrexian dreadnaught into play and does the sacrificed worldspine wurm's effect still kick in to be shuffled into my library?
So basically even though a creature token can grow in strength due to other effects creature tokens can be used as cannon fodder on the battlefield until you get a stronger creature?
Every creature can be used as fodder until you get a better creature. Just remember that at the beginning of the game it's more important to have creatures than it is to have lots of life. Don't be afraid to take a few hits before you start losing creatures to ineffective blocks.
So if I have a token card, I cannot
use it without the proper card that summons it ? and I'm not sure I see the difference between an enchantment aura and a counter buffing a creature
anyway thanks, your vids are very well done and help me a lot !
That's correct the token card needs the "Real" card to be created. An enchantment that gives +1/+1 and a counter that gives +1/+1 function exactly the same way. The only difference is that you can destroy the enchantment with a destroy enchantment spell and there are no such things as destroy counters spells.
Budget MTG Decks So, does that mean if I'm allowed to summon a 1/1 white Bird token with flying, it must be a bird token? Or will any 1/1 or white token be acceptable?
Xoloseof Hammertail I'm guessing you figured this out already but since you could in theory use anything to represent a token in the absence of the actual token you could use any other token as long as you and your opponent agree and remember it was a 1/1 flying bird. It could get confusing though if you were using a 2/2 green wolf token to represent that bird though. I'd say if you don't have the actual token use something else like card shaped paper with the word 1/1 bird token written on it.
Jesse Collingwood that actually helps. Thanks!
Xoloseof Hammertail my pleasure. Happy battling :)
If a token has an ability or attribute for instance, first strike, and the card doesn't say it but the token does, which one do you follow
If the card says put down a 1/1 human soldier and you look through your collection and can only find a 1/1 human soldier token with First Strike, then that means you don't have the right token at your disposal. You can just use dice in a pinch or simply remember that the token you produced does not actually have first strike +Exalted Robin. Long story short, the card that produces the tokens is always right.
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Thanks that really helps
Ill look at more of your videos to clarify my questions.
have a nice day
So you can cast spells on token like with normal creatures to make them stronger?
You can *****, anything from instants to boost their strength to enchantments to give them special abilities. Token creatures are exactly the same as regular creatures once they hit the battlefield, the only difference is once they leave the battlefield and enter another zone (your hand or the graveyard etc..) they cease to exist.
Does anyone know what time counters and poison counters are
If you use a spell that says "destroy target creature with Mana cost converted 4 or less" per example, can you target a token?
Yes, the CMC of a token is 0. So that works great!
Whats the best way to handle a lot of +1+1/+1+0/+0+1/ counters the best way? With craps?
Hi Daniel, we simply note the number of +1/+1 counters with dice. A D6 for low numbers and move to D20 for high numbers.
Me and my friend are new to the game of magic and are still learning so much about the game. I recently bought the amonkhet deck builders kit and within it I received a lot of these tokens. To summon them, can I use any creature or spell card to summon these tokens or do certain cards summon these tokens specifically?
The tokens are created by specific cards which mention them.
do part 10 of you playing the game and using all these skills
There will be more coming, including gameplay videos ;).
ok, first youtuber to reply to me thank you:)
Clonehead stole my joke D: anyways awesome job!
Thanks Dr.Necro, happy you are keeping up with watching all the episodes :P
So I understand that “when a token is put into the graveyard it disappears”, but would I be able to bring it back with a disentomb or a similar instant?
Unfortunately no. Once tokens hit the graveyard they cannot be targeted by anything.
I've seen players put a dice on top of the token card to represent how many of those tokens are on the battlefield. What confuses me is if let's say: they have 3 1/1 elf tokens but only want to attack with one and leave the other two untapped. If the player taps the token with the dice on top it seems as if 3 elf tokens are attacking, which can lead to confusion. Is declaring that only one token as attacker verbally enough?
We don't think it's enough +JCMELKOR. This is the reason we always have two of each token. To represent those which are tapped and those which are not.
Hi. I've seen some sorcery cards that have add cost like "Return no-token permanent to owner's hand" and some other that just say "Put a permanent to owner's library/hand". In second one add cost may I use a token to pay it or just no-token creatures covers this cost. Thank you.
Hi +Sebastián Álvares, the question is not entirely clear to us. Do you maybe have the name of a card as an example? And describe what you want to do with it?
1:49 instead of "dissapearing" why not put it into the Exile zone?
Because only cards can go from zone to zone. As a token is not a card it will always disappear when it moves zones. So from the battlefield to your hand for example.
Wondering if token cards are separate from ur deck??
Yes, token cards are part of no one’s deck. Bring them with you if you know you or your opponent has the possibility of getting that particular token.
Only problem is that it seems like tokens are hard to come by. Especially the specific type of token like specific race and type (like warrior or mage etc.) Is there an easy way to get tokens?
You could load a picture on you phone and use that. Or just write it on a land with a sharpie. It's not pretty but it is cost effective.
Thank you for the advice and the VERY quick response.
hey everyone, I'm just starting out in magic and have a few of these tokens, however I don't have cards that can summon these tokens, but when I do get a card, where do I keep the tokens before I play them? do I keep them in my deck then look through until I find the token then reshuffle? do I keep it on the side in its own pile? or do I keep them in the hand? idk what I do with them lol.
Good quesetion +LegendOfChimera. Just keep the tokens in a pile somewhere on the table where you can reach them but away from the battlefield, your library and graveyard. Sorry for the delay in answering.
so tokens count as creatures. And say I have a card that says destroy target creature, can I destroy a token?
You sure can! The only moment you would not be able to is if it says "destroy target nontoken creature".
You sure can!
So if it says you can put a "1/1 goblin token" into play, do you actually have to have a card that says "goblin token" or can you just write 1/1 on a small tear of paper and have that count?
yeah I used to use the paper trick - or sometimes even just a dice works great
When something with tokens/counters on gets exiled do they stay or are they removed?
If a token of a creature gets exiled it is removed from the game. If a creature card with a number of counters gets exiled the creature is removed from the game and so are the counters.
wait so do the counters stay the same every turn or do they gradually decrease, for example a +5/+5 counter is put on a creature, then next turn it goes down to +4/+4, so on and so forth?
They stay.
ok thank you
I have a card that allowes me to create token cards, but it doesnt say put it into the battlefield, what happens then?
"Create" is the same as "Put a token on the battlefield".
if you have 10 token goblins can those 10 block 10 different attackers?
yes the can block 10 different attackers
@@xdelusionq8393 thank you been trying to find it in the rules somewhere
what happens when you regenerate a creature with counters on it ?
CJI the counters stay. Regenerate taps a creature and removes it from combat along with preventing it from being destroyed. Creatures usually lose their counters when they leave the battlefield, like when they are returned to your hand, blinked, killed or put into your library.
Thank you
Say you have a creature that makes tokens but that creature dies do the tokens stay
Yes the tokens stay regardless of the source that created them.
@@BudgetMTGDecks thank you
I still don't understand tokens. Where do you get them from?
You play a card from you hand such as Dragon Fodder. The Dragon Fodder Sorcery goes to the graveyard and you grab two Goblin tokens from outside the game and put them on the battlefield. A token can be anything to represent the newly created creatures, such as dice, gems, pieces of paper or the official card tokens often found in booster packs.
can you actually get token cards like the ones you show?
Yes, they come in packs or you can buy them as singles from your local store.
@@BudgetMTGDecks Thanks! do you recommend that or little token chips?
We recommend card tokens because then you won't forget what they represent.
@@BudgetMTGDecks Thankyou!!!
Im new what do you mean they disapear?
It means that you remove them from the battlefield, graveyard, hand or exile zone. Unlike normal magic cards which continue to exist in those zones.
Can tokens attack and block as usual?
Yes they can. They are treated exactly like creatures represented by a card except tokens disappear when they go to the graveyard, exile zone or to your hand.
+Budget MTG Decks great thanks :)
I assume you have to have the token card to use the ability of the main card?
No you don't +JustDaz. You can just use the back of a card you are not using and put dice on it to show power and toughness. If you create multiple tokens you can also just add another dice at the top to denote the amount of tokens.
guys what exactly is colorless mana and how is it works??
Colorless mana works the same as mana of a color. You can just see it as a 6th color of magic except it has no color.
You can use any color of mana for it
Colorless mana cannot substitute colored mana.
Can you power up a token creature??
What do you mean with power up?
Budget MTG Decks like if a card says all creatures you control gain +1/1 does that also include tokens?
If the token is a creature then yes!
So I just cant play a token creature just like that?
Nope, you can't.
At my school some kids and counselors are playing a blue counter as a creature for example if a card says "Place down 1/1 re goblin with flying on to the battlefield" he will put a counter not a card. Do you have to have a token creature card in your hand to play it?
No you do not. If a card tells you to put down a 1/1 token for example you can just use a dice, or counter to represent the creature.
Or, you can just write "1/1 red flying goblin"on a scrap of paper and use that as a token.
"creatures' powers and touchness"
That's how many times they can be touched before going to the graveyard...
Thought it was a typo XD
Yeah it was, just trying to talk my way out of it.
Ooooohhh...haha, that's probably what I would do, too.