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It's a replacement effect, adding one more counter to the existing effect, not creating a new effect that adds an additional counter. Keywords here are "if" and "instead".
TL;DR - 3 Counters, not 4
Thank you! I wasn't thinking of it as a replacement effect, but that makes it very clear.