Armada Comics Counters

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Two years after the introduction of Magic, quite a few cards made use of counters, most of them originating from the Fallen Empires set. To facilitate gameplay, Armada Comics created a variety of cardboard counters and published them in sheets which were inserted in some of their first Magic comic books. Two of the counter sheets were assigned to more than one type of comic, yet never more than one sheet was included per comic. The exact assignation between comics and sheets can be seen here:

Fallen Empires #2/2 Sheet #1 or Sheet #2
Ice Age #3/4 Sheet #4
Ice Age #4/4 Sheet #5
Ice Age compilation #1/2 Sheet #1 or Sheet #2
Ice Age compilation #2/2 Sheet #1 or Sheet #2
The Shadow Mage #3/4 Sheet #1 or Sheet #2
The Shadow Mage #4/4 Sheet #3
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 Sheet #1 or Sheet #2
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 Sheet #1 or Sheet #2

The counters are not equally divided on the sheets. The exact distribution can be seen here:

Counter Sheet #1 Counter Sheet #2 Counter Sheet #3 Counter Sheet #4 Counter Sheet #5
-2/-2 0 0 0 8 0
-1/-1 0 0 0 12 8
-1/-0 0 0 0 0 12
-1/+1 0 8 0 0 0
-0/-1 0 0 0 0 9
+0/+1 0 0 0 9 0
+1/-1 0 9 0 0 0
+1/+0 9 0 0 0 0
+1/+1 0 6 0 0 6
+1/+2 8 4 0 0 0
+2/-2 0 0 0 6 0
+2/+1 6 4 0 0 0
+2/+2 12 4 0 0 0
1 Life 6 0 6 0 6
1 Mana 0 15 15 0 0
1 Poison 0 0 15 15 0
5 Life 3 0 3 0 3
5 Mana 0 5 5 0 0
5 Poison 0 0 5 5 0


Counter Sheet #1


Counter Sheet #2


Counter Sheet #3


Counter Sheet #4


Counter Sheet #5


Ice Age #3/4
comic


Ice Age #4/4
comic


Ice Age #1/2
compilation comic


Ice Age #2/2
compilation comic


The Shadow Mage #3/4
comic


The Shadow Mage #4/4
comic


The Shadow Mage #1/2
compilation comic


The Shadow Mage #2/2
compilation comic


Fallen Empires
#2/2 comic 

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ARMADA COMICS COUNTERS

SET

 

COUNTER NAME

 

ARTIST

 

SOURCE

 

DATE

001 (-2/-2 Counter) (none) Ice Age #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
002 (-1/-1 Counter) (none) Ice Age #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
Ice Age #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
003 (-1/-0 Counter) (none) Ice Age #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
004 (-1/+1 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
005 (-0/-1 Counter) (none) Ice Age #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
006 (+0/+1 Counter) (none) Ice Age #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
007 (+1/-1 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
008 (+1/+0 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
009 (+1/+1 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
010 (+1/+2 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
011 (+2/-2 Counter) (none) Ice Age #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
012 (+2/+1 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
013 (+2/+2 Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
014       (1 Mana Counter)   (none)   Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition   1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
015 (5 Mana Counter) (none) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
016     (1 Poison Counter)   (Anson Maddocks)   Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition   1995-10
Ice Age #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
017 (5 Poison Counter) (Amy Weber) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
018 (1 Life Counter) (Amy Weber) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12
019 (5 Life Counter) (Christopher Rush) Fallen Empires #2/2 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
Ice Age compilation #1/2 comic addition 1996-01
Ice Age compilation #2/2 comic addition 1996-01
The Shadow Mage #3/4 comic addition 1995-09
The Shadow Mage #4/4 comic addition 1995-10
The Shadow Mage compilation #1/2 comic addition 1995-12
The Shadow Mage compilation #2/2 comic addition 1995-12