Germination Practicum card art

Germination Practicum

Sorcery — Lesson MV 5

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)

Combos with Germination Practicum

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.

  • Deadeye Navigator Crystalline Crawler Naru Meha, Master Wizard Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2026-03-20

    Once a spell with paradigm has resolved, it doesn't matter what happens to the card in exile. Even if the card leaves exile, the delayed triggered ability will still trigger during each of your first main phases, and the copy will still be created.

  • 2026-03-20

    Paradigm creates a delayed triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of each of your first main phases for the rest of the game. When that ability resolves and the copy is created, you can choose not to cast the copy. In that case, the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are checked. The delayed triggered ability will still trigger again at the beginning of your first main phase on your next turn regardless.

  • 2026-03-20

    Each spell with paradigm has the Lesson subtype. The Lesson subtype appears on instants and sorceries and has no inherent rules meaning. Other effects (such as the learn ability from the original Strixhaven release) may refer to it.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Germination Practicum, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 1 0 —
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Abzan 2 decks
  • Bant 1 deck

Germination Practicum price history

The Secrets of Strixhaven #149 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$7.15▼ $1.36 (16.0%)
Low $7.15 · High $8.51Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 26, 2026$7.15$7.84
Oct 25, 2026$7.29$7.88
Oct 24, 2026$7.53$7.94
Oct 23, 2026$7.54$8.03
Oct 22, 2026$7.48$8.03
Oct 21, 2026$7.49$8.12
Oct 20, 2026$7.53$8.35
Oct 19, 2026$7.55$8.80
Oct 18, 2026$7.73$8.99
Oct 17, 2026$7.79$9.05
Oct 16, 2026$7.99$9.12
Oct 14, 2026$7.90$9.27
Oct 13, 2026$7.88$9.27
Oct 12, 2026$7.97$9.27
Oct 11, 2026$7.81$9.27
Oct 10, 2026$7.95$9.25
Oct 9, 2026$7.80$9.27
Oct 8, 2026$7.84$9.27
Oct 7, 2026$8.29$9.28
Oct 6, 2026$8.26$9.30
Oct 5, 2026$8.28$9.28
Oct 4, 2026$8.21$9.25
Oct 3, 2026$8.12$9.21
Oct 2, 2026$8.06$9.30
Oct 1, 2026$8.18$9.36
Sep 30, 2026$8.19$9.36
Sep 29, 2026$8.13$9.36
Sep 28, 2026$8.51$9.43

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Germination Practicum

3 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Germination Practicum. 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.