Verdurous Gearhulk 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.
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Official card text
Trample When this creature enters, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.
How it works : Verdurous Gearhulk
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You choose how the counters will be distributed as you put Verdurous Gearhulk's triggered ability onto the stack. Each target creature must be assigned at least one counter.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If one of the target creatures becomes an illegal target in response to Verdurous Gearhulk's triggered ability, the +1/+1 counters that would have been put on that creature are lost. They can't be put on another legal target.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Verdurous Gearhulk can be the target of its own triggered ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Verdurous Gearhulk + Crystalline Crawler + Deadeye Navigator
Infinite blinkingInfinite colored manaInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Verdurous Gearhulk by paying
, blinking itself. - 2Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, triggering itself and Deadeye Navigator.
- 3Resolve the Verdurous Gearhulk trigger, putting four +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler.
- 4Resolve the Deadeye Navigator trigger, repairing itself and Verdurous Gearhulk.
- 5Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability twice by removing two +1/+1 counters from it, adding .
- 6Repeat.
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#2
Verdurous Gearhulk + Crystalline Crawler + Emiel the Blessed
Infinite blinkingInfinite colored manaInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Emiel by paying
, blinking Verdurous Gearhulk. - 2Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, putting four +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler.
- 3Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability twice by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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Verdurous Gearhulk + Cryptic Trilobite + Eldrazi Displacer
Infinite blinkingInfinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilitiesInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Eldrazi Displacer by paying
, blinking Verdurous Gearhulk. - 2Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, putting four +1/+1 counters on Cryptic Trilobite.
- 3Activate Cryptic Trilobite's second ability twice by removing two +1/+1 counters from it, adding that can only be spent to activate abilities.
- 4Repeat.
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#4
Verdurous Gearhulk + Saw in Half + Epic Struggle + Nested Shambler
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- 1Cast Saw in Half by paying
, destroying Verdurous Gearhulk and creating four token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time. - 2When the Verdurous Gearhulk tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, putting at least nine +1/+1 counters on Nested Shambler, and the remaining 23 +1/+1 counters on any creature(s) you control.
- 3Kill Nested Shambler, triggering its ability, creating at least twenty 1/1 Squirrel creature tokens.
- 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Epic Struggle triggers, causing you to win the game.
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#5
Verdurous Gearhulk + Saw in Half + Simic Ascendancy + Primal Vigor
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- 1Cast Saw in Half by paying , destroying Verdurous Gearhulk and creating four token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time.
- 2The Verdurous Gearhulk tokens enter the battlefield, triggering their abilities.
- 3Resolve a Verdurous Gearhulk trigger, putting eight +1/+1 counters on any creature(s) you control.
- 4Simic Ascendancy triggers, putting eight growth counters on itself.
- 5Repeat steps 3-4 for each remaining trigger.
- 6At the beginning of your next upkeep, Simic Ascendancy triggers, causing you to win the game.
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Verdurous Gearhulk + Saw in Half + Epic Struggle + Nested Shambler
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- 1Cast Saw in Half by paying , destroying Verdurous Gearhulk and creating four token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time.
- 2When the Verdurous Gearhulk tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, putting at least nine +1/+1 counters on Nested Shambler, and the remaining seven +1/+1 counters on any creature(s) you control.
- 3Kill Nested Shambler, triggering its ability, creating at least twenty 1/1 Squirrel creature tokens.
- 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Epic Struggle triggers, causing you to win the game.
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Verdurous Gearhulk + Saw in Half + Simic Ascendancy + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- 1Cast Saw in Half by paying , destroying Verdurous Gearhulk and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time.
- 2The Verdurous Gearhulk tokens enter the battlefield, triggering their abilities.
- 3Resolve a Verdurous Gearhulk trigger, putting eight +1/+1 counters on any creature(s) you control.
- 4Simic Ascendancy triggers, putting sixteen growth counters on itself.
- 5Repeat steps 3-4 for each remaining trigger.
- 6At the beginning of your next upkeep, Simic Ascendancy triggers, causing you to win the game.
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#8
Verdurous Gearhulk + Cryptic Trilobite + Emiel the Blessed
Infinite blinkingInfinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilitiesInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Emiel by paying , blinking Verdurous Gearhulk.
- 2Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, putting four +1/+1 counters on Cryptic Trilobite.
- 3Activate Cryptic Trilobite's second ability twice by removing two +1/+1 counters from it, adding that can only be spent to activate abilities.
- 4Repeat.
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Legal formats
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