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Fuel for the Cause

mbsMirrodin Besieged#25common
{2}{U}{U}
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1 printings across 1 sets
Printings

This is the only printing — Mirrodin Besieged #25.

Card details
Artist
Steven Belledin
Frame
2003
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Oracle text

Instant

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

Abilities
SpellCounter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Plays as
Counter PlacerProliferateCounterspellPoison SynergyLoyalty ManipulationPlaneswalker Synergy
Flavor & art
"Your ideas will be discarded and your will repurposed."
Illustrated by
Steven Belledin
Rulings
  • WotCFeb 4, 2023

    An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.

  • WotCFeb 4, 2023

    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.

  • WotCFeb 4, 2023

    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.

  • WotCFeb 4, 2023

    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.

  • WotCFeb 4, 2023

    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.

  • WotCFeb 4, 2023

    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.

  • WotCJun 1, 2011

    If the spell is an illegal target when Fuel for the Cause tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't proliferate.

  • WotCJun 1, 2011

    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.