Steady Progress
Instant
Steady Progress
Instant
Card Text
Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 3
- Colors
- Blue
- Color Identity
- Blue
- EDHREC Rank
- #4,741
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (14)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) | #MM2-58 | common | en | Efrem Palacios | $0.40 | β |
| Modern Masters 2015 (MM2) | #58 | common | en | Efrem Palacios | $0.24 | $0.72 |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | en | Efrem Palacios | $0.32 | $2.93 |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | de | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | es | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | fr | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | it | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Modern Masters 2015 (MM2) | #58 | common | ja | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | ja | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | pt | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | ru | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Modern Masters 2015 (MM2) | #58 | common | zhs | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | zhs | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) | #45 | common | zht | Efrem Palacios | β | β |
Official Rulings (7)
To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
This spell has no targets. You can cast it even if there are no players or permanents with counters on them. If you do, you'll simply draw a card as it resolves.
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