About Walking Ballista
Walking Ballista (FOIL) is a premium Walking Ballista MTG proxy card from Magic: The Gathering‘s Secret Lair Drop. This colorless artifact creature is most useful in decks built around plus-one counters, combo damage, and artifact decks, making it a useful option for casual play, cube, display, and deck testing.
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| Type | Artifact Creature — Construct |
| Text | This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target. |
| Set | Secret Lair Drop SLD #1265 |
| Rarity | Rare |
What Walking Ballista Does
Walking Ballista enters with X plus-one counters and can remove counters to deal damage to any target.
It is useful as removal, a scalable threat, and a combo finisher in decks that can add counters or generate lots of mana.
Best Uses for Walking Ballista
- Counter decks: Turns counter generation into repeatable damage.
- Artifact combo: Works with mana engines and recursion in artifact shells.
- Commander testing: Lets players test scalable removal and combo lines.
Recommended Interactions
Walking Ballista works well with cards that support plus-one counters, combo damage, or artifact decks. It is worth testing if your deck already wants this role and can use the card without forcing the whole list to become a tiny rules seminar.
- Heliod, Sun-Crowned: Combines with Walking Ballista for a well-known lifegain damage loop.
- Hardened Scales: Adds more counters as Ballista enters.
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed: Supports creature combo patterns with non-Human creatures.
Strengths and Considerations
The main strength of Walking Ballista is scalable damage from a colorless artifact creature. The main consideration is it needs mana or counter support to become more than small removal. Testing Walking Ballista MTG proxy can help you decide whether it fits your deck, cube, or casual playgroup.
Product Quality and Proxy Use
ProxyKing cards are produced with premium print quality, proper trading-card size, ideal weight, consistent thickness, and a natural shuffle feel for sleeved casual play.
This is a proxy/playtest card for casual play, Commander, cube, display, and deck testing where proxies are allowed. It is not an official Magic card and is not tournament legal. Review our Proxy Use Policy for responsible casual use.
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: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
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