Battle of Hoover Dam is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
As this enchantment enters, choose NCR or Legion. • NCR — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. • Legion — Whenever a creature you control dies, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
How it works : Battle of Hoover Dam
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Finality counters aren’t keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn’t give any abilities to the permanent it’s on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Finality counters don’t stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner’s hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If you somehow control Battle of Hoover Dam and no choice was made for it (perhaps because another permanent on the battlefield became a copy of it), it has neither of the two triggered abilities.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Basking Broodscale + Battle of Hoover Dam
- 1Activate Basking Broodscale's adapt ability by paying
, putting a +1/+1 counter on it. - 2Basking Broodscale triggers, creating a 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn creature token.
- 3Activate the Eldrazi Spawn by sacrificing it, adding
. - 4When the Eldrazi Spawn dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on Basking Broodscale.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
Ghave, Guru of Spores + Battle of Hoover Dam + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing another creature you control, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on Ghave.
- 3Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from it, creating a 1/1 Saproling creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Battle of Hoover Dam + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.
- 3Animation Module triggers, causing you to pay to create a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Ghave, Guru of Spores + Battle of Hoover Dam + Utopia Mycon
- 1Activate Utopia Mycon's second ability by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on Ghave.
- 3Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from it, creating a 1/1 Saproling creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Ghave, Guru of Spores + Battle of Hoover Dam + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing another creature you control, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on Ghave.
- 3Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from it, creating a 1/1 Saproling creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Battle of Hoover Dam + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a creature, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.
- 3Animation Module triggers, causing you to pay to create a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Battle of Hoover Dam + Animation Module + Krark-Clan Ironworks
- 1Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing an artifact creature, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.
- 3Animation Module triggers, causing you to pay to create a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Battle of Hoover Dam + Triskelavus + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Triskelavus by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from it, creating a 1/1 Triskelavite artifact creature token.
- 2Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the Triskelavite, adding .
- 3When the Triskelavite dies, Battle of Hoover Dam triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on Triskelavus.
- 4Repeat.
- 5Once you have infinite colorless mana and +1/+1 counters, you may forego sacrificing the Triskelavites.
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