Serum Snare
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #68 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.26 USD
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If that permanent had mana value 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Serum Snare has 1 printing, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #4,629 among Commander cards. It appears most in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice decks (3,669 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Serum Snare most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 3,669 decks
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus: 1,830 decks
- Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis: 1,606 decks
- Venser, Corpse Puppet: 1,361 decks
- Katara, Waterbending Master: 1,164 decks
- Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar: 1,136 decks
- Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel: 1,050 decks
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres: 1,049 decks
Often played with Serum Snare
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.