Whisper of the Dross
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #117 (common)
- Price
- $0.37 USD
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Whisper of the Dross has 1 printing, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #3,713 among Commander cards. It appears most in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice decks (4,628 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Whisper of the Dross most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 4,628 decks
- Karumonix, the Rat King: 3,245 decks
- Toxrill, the Corrosive: 3,093 decks
- Massacre Girl, Known Killer: 2,534 decks
- Auntie Ool, Cursewretch: 1,920 decks
- Minthara, Merciless Soul: 1,698 decks
- Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa: 1,652 decks
- High Perfect Morcant: 1,589 decks
Often played with Whisper of the Dross
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.