Biogenic Upgrade
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on each of those creatures.
Combos with Biogenic Upgrade
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Crystalline Crawler Reiterate Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2019-01-25
You choose how many targets Biogenic Upgrade has and how the counters are distributed as you cast it. Each target must receive at least one counter. This means, for example, that you can't target three creatures and assign them two, one, and zero counters.
- 2019-01-25
If some of the creatures are illegal targets as Biogenic Upgrade tries to resolve, the original distribution of counters still applies and the counters that would have been put on the illegal targets are lost. They won't be put instead on a legal target.
- 2019-01-25
To double the number of +1/+1 counters on a permanent, put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number it already has. Other cards that interact with putting counters on it will interact with this effect accordingly.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Biogenic Upgrade, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leinore, Autumn Sovereign | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Selesnya 1 deck
Every version of Biogenic Upgrade
7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

The List
- Normal
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Foundations Jumpstart
- Normal
- $0.29

- Normal
- $0.18

The List
- Normal
- $0.13

- Normal
- $0.23
- Foil
- $0.33

- Normal
- $0.25

- Normal
- $0.26
- Foil
- $0.54
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Biogenic Upgrade. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.