Branching Evolution
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Combos with Branching Evolution
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.
- Mindless Automaton Wizard Class Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Experiment Kraj Devoted Druid Infinite
- Infinite green mana
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Triskelion Scythe of the Wretched Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Marath, Will of the Wild Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Marath, Will of the Wild Mana Echoes Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature tokens that are infinitely large
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Marath, Will of the Wild Cryptic Trilobite Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-06-23
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.
- 2020-06-23
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.
- 2020-06-23
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Branching Evolution, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakbal of the Surging Soul | 3 | 0 | — |
| Atraxa, Praetors' Voice | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ms. Bumbleflower | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sovereign Okinec Ahau | 1 | 0 | — |
| the wise mothman | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tidus, Yuna's Guardian | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zaxara, the Exemplary | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zimone, Infinite Analyst | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 4 decks
- Sultai 2 decks
- Bant 2 decks
- Selesnya 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Red) 1 deck
Branching Evolution price history
The Modern Horizons 3 #285 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $7.60 | $9.06 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $7.60 | $9.06 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $7.34 | $8.91 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $7.71 | $8.91 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $7.67 | $8.91 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $7.82 | $8.91 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $7.83 | $8.91 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $8.18 | $9.06 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $8.31 | $9.06 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $8.09 | $9.06 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $8.05 | $8.85 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $8.26 | $8.85 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $8.11 | $8.85 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $7.84 | $8.85 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $7.95 | $8.85 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $8.17 | $8.85 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $7.91 | $8.89 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $7.98 | $8.89 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $8.04 | $8.89 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $8.35 | $8.89 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $8.31 | $8.88 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $7.82 | $8.88 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $7.63 | $8.71 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $7.61 | $8.73 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $7.79 | $8.73 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $7.80 | $8.64 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $7.57 | $8.64 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $7.31 | $8.64 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $7.30 | $8.64 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $7.96 | $8.41 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Branching Evolution
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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $7.60
- Foil
- $9.06
- Normal
- $7.75
- Foil
- $7.30
Extended Art
- Normal
- $11.42
- Foil
- $13.22
- Foil
- $18.04
Extended Art
- Foil
- $20.26
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $7.88
- Normal
- $8.06
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Branching Evolution. 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.
