Expand the Sphere
- Mana cost
- {3}{G}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #168 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.29 USD
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you put fewer than two lands onto the battlefield this way, proliferate a number of times equal to the difference. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Expand the Sphere has 1 printing, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #5,387 among Commander cards. It appears most in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice decks (4,857 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 12 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Expand the Sphere
- Corrupting Influence - Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander, led by Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Commanders that run Expand the Sphere most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 4,857 decks
- Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa: 3,477 decks
- Fynn, the Fangbearer: 2,526 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive: 1,743 decks
- Atraxa, Grand Unifier: 872 decks
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres: 779 decks
- Glissa, Herald of Predation: 653 decks
- Migloz, Maze Crusher: 627 decks
Often played with Expand the Sphere
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.
- : 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 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- : 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.