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Mirrodin Besieged (MBS | #25 | 2011-02-04)

Fuel for the Cause

2UU
Instant
Artist: Steven Belledin

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

$0.40 cheapest print

Prices

Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
Mirrodin Besieged 25 Regular Nonfoil $0.40
Mirrodin Besieged 25 Regular Foil $4.47

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Printings (1)

Fuel for the Cause — Mirrodin Besieged
Mirrodin Besieged
#25 Common $0.40
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Steven Belledin

Rulings

2023-02-04 wotc
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.
2023-02-04 wotc
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.
2023-02-04 wotc
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.
2023-02-04 wotc
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.
2023-02-04 wotc
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.
2023-02-04 wotc
An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
2011-06-01 wotc
You must be able to target another spell in order to cast Fuel for the Cause. You can't just cast it in order to proliferate, and it can't target itself.
2011-06-01 wotc
If the spell is an illegal target when Fuel for the Cause tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't proliferate.

Format Legality

Tlr Not Legal
Standard Not Legal
Future Not Legal
Historic Not Legal
Timeless Not Legal
Gladiator Not Legal
Pioneer Not Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not Legal
Brawl Not Legal
Alchemy Not Legal
Paupercommander Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Not Legal
Premodern Not Legal
Predh Legal