Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 1

You still pay all costs and obey timing restrictions when casting Hundred-Battle Veteran from your graveyard with the permission from its last ability.

Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 2

If Hundred-Battle Veteran is countered after being cast from your graveyard, it will return to your graveyard. It may be cast this way again. (That doesn’t count as one of the hundred battles.)

Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 3

Once you begin casting a spell from your graveyard, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can’t take any actions until you’ve finished casting the spell.

Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 4

If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.

Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 5

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.

Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 6

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.

Hundred-Battle Veteran — ruling 7

Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.

Hundred-Battle Veteran : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Hundred-Battle Veteran 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 long as there are three or more different kinds of counters among creatures you control, this creature gets +2/+4. You may cast this card from your graveyard. If you do, it enters with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

How it works : Hundred-Battle Veteran

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1April 4, 2025· Wizards of the Coast
You still pay all costs and obey timing restrictions when casting Hundred-Battle Veteran from your graveyard with the permission from its last ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2April 4, 2025· Wizards of the Coast
If Hundred-Battle Veteran is countered after being cast from your graveyard, it will return to your graveyard. It may be cast this way again. (That doesn’t count as one of the hundred battles.)
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3April 4, 2025· Wizards of the Coast
Once you begin casting a spell from your graveyard, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can’t take any actions until you’ve finished casting the spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4April 4, 2025· Wizards of the Coast
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.
#5April 4, 2025· 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.
#6April 4, 2025· 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.
#7April 4, 2025· Wizards of the Coast
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
No other card is named in this ruling.