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Chamber Sentry

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2 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Chamber Sentry, Jumpstart printing
Jumpstart JMP · No. 461 2020-07-17

Card text

{X}
Artifact Creature — Construct
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. {X}, {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from this creature: It deals X damage to any target. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
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EDHREC rank #25234 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

6 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

You can choose any value for X as you cast Chamber Sentry. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of +1/+1 counters Chamber Sentry enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it.

2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast

If Chamber Sentry enters the battlefield without being cast, it receives no +1/+1 counters.

2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast

If an effect allows you to spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast Chamber Sentry, you consider only the actual mana spent to determine how many counters it receives.

2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast

If another creature enters the battlefield as a copy of Chamber Sentry, consider what mana was spent to cast that creature to determine how many +1/+1 counters it enters with.

2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Colorless mana won't give Chamber Sentry another +1/+1 counter. Colorless is not a color.

2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast

The value of X chosen when you activate Chamber Sentry's first activated ability doesn't have to be the same value of X that you chose when you cast it.

2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast

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