First printed in Secrets of Strixhaven (2026)
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Reach, trample
Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, that creature enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast it.
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- Illustrated by
- Loïc Canavaggia
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders
Rulings (6)
- The maximum number of colors of mana you can spend to cast a spell is five. Colorless is not a color. Note that the cost of a spell with converge may limit how many colors of mana you can spend.
- If a spell with a converge ability is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so the number of colors of mana spent to cast the spell will be zero. The number of colors spent to cast the original spell is not copied.
- Unless a spell or ability allows you to, you can't choose to pay more mana for a spell with a converge ability just to spend more colors of mana. Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana.
- If there are any alternative or additional costs to cast a spell with a converge ability, the colors of mana spent to pay those costs will count.
- For each of the hybrid mana symbols in Wildgrowth Archaic's mana cost, you can choose to pay either
or 
. If you choose to pay , you can still use green mana to pay for one or both of the generic mana in that cost. - If you cast a spell with converge without spending any mana to cast it (perhaps because an effect allowed you to cast it without paying its mana cost), then the number of colors spent to cast it will be zero.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS), Premier Draft | 57.0% | +1.6 | +5.4 | 11679 |
| Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS), Sealed | 56.7% | +0.9 | +3.3 | 644 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
3 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Crystalline Crawler + Temur Sabertooth + Wildgrowth Archaic
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Crystalline Crawler + Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam + Wildgrowth Archaic
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Crystalline Crawler + Meticulous Excavation + Wildgrowth Archaic
