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Branching Evolution

Card Name

Branching Evolution

Mana Cost

2

Type

Enchantment

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Flavor Text

The Master discovered a new evolutionary path after tossing a human, a dog, and a cat into a vat of Forced Evolutionary Virus. He called his creations "centaurs" and unleashed them unto the wastes.

Legal Formats

Commander, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Banned Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(6/23/2020)
If a creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it, it enters with twice that many instead.
(6/23/2020)
If you control two Branching Evolutions, the number of +1/+1 counters put on a creature is four times the original number. Three Branching Evolutions multiplies the original number by eight, and so on.
(6/23/2020)
If two or more effects attempt to modify how many counters would be put onto a creature you control, you choose the order to apply those effects, no matter who controls the sources of those effects.