Expansion Algorithm

Public decks that run Expansion Algorithm

• Quandrix Unlimited - Secrets of Strixhaven, led by Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Commanders that run Expansion Algorithm most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

• Zimone, Infinite Analyst: 8,370 decks
• Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 2,771 decks
• Primo, the Unbounded: 1,704 decks
• Zaxara, the Exemplary: 847 decks
• Berta, Wise Extrapolator: 726 decks
• Kilo, Apogee Mind: 712 decks
• Tam, the Possibility: 542 decks
• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus: 501 decks

Often played with Expansion Algorithm

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

• Nexus Mentality
• Entrancing Melody
• Owlin Spiralmancer
• Brass Infiniscope
• Commander's Insight
• Elementalist's Palette
• Phyresis Outbreak
• Lattice Library
• Zimone's Hypothesis
• Nev, the Practical Dean

Rulings

• 2026-03-20: When you 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.
• 2026-03-20: 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.
• 2026-03-20: 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.
• 2026-03-20: If you proliferate multiple times, you don't have to choose the same set of players and/or permanents to get additional counters each time.
• 2026-03-20: You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter—only the ones you want to add counters 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.
• 2026-03-20: While proliferating multiple times, players can't respond between proliferating the first time and proliferating the second time, and so on.