Unbounded Potential
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The List #MH2-36 (common)
- Price
- $0.18 USD
Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Entwine {3}{W} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Unbounded Potential has 3 printings, first in Modern Horizons 2 (2021). EDHREC ranks it #8,360 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kros, Defense Contractor decks (1,407 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Unbounded Potential most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kros, Defense Contractor: 1,407 decks
- Minthara, Merciless Soul: 791 decks
- Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings: 494 decks
- Hamza, Guardian of Arashin: 311 decks
- Otharri, Suns' Glory: 291 decks
- Immard, the Stormcleaver: 207 decks
- Nils, Discipline Enforcer: 206 decks
- Arwen, Mortal Queen: 181 decks
Often played with Unbounded Potential
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : While proliferating, if you choose a permanent or player with multiple kinds of counters, the permanent or player gets another counter of each kind, not just one kind. This change from the original proliferate rules was introduced in a previous set.
- : 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 you cast this spell by paying its entwine cost, you will be able to proliferate the counters that you placed with the first mode.
- : If a permanent has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters (or none of either kind of counters) on it.
- : To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents, and 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.