First printed in War of the Spark (2019)
All 8 prints
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Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) #105, 2026
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The List (PLST) #WAR-159, 2024
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Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #765, 2024
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #240, 2023
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Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) #108, 2023
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New Capenna Commander (NCC) #287, 2022
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Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) #65, 2020
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War of the Spark (WAR) #159, 2019
Evolution Sage 
Creature — Elf Druid
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
"To care for yourself, cultivate the world. To care for the world, cultivate yourself."
3/2
- Illustrated by
- Simon Dominic
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (9)
- 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.
- An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
- Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).
- A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Combos
177 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Sporoloth Ancient + Utopia Mycon
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Sporesower Thallid + Sporoloth Ancient
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Psychotrope Thallid + Sporoloth Ancient
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Sporoloth Ancient + Thallid
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Sporoloth Ancient + Thallid Shell-Dweller
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Deathspore Thallid + Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Sporoloth Ancient
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Doubling Season + Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Sporoloth Ancient
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Parallel Lives + Sporoloth Ancient
- Infinite turns, Lock: Evolution Sage + Magosi, the Waterveil + Nesting Grounds
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Evolution Sage + Life and Limb + Primal Vigor + Sporoloth Ancient
