Proliferate with multiple kinds of counters?

Asked by UniqueUserID 10 years ago

The keyword reads as "You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.".

But isn't this functionally different to how the rules/wiki says?

"701.24. Proliferate 701.24a To proliferate means to choose any number of permanents and/or players that have a counter, then give each exactly one additional counter of a kind that permanent or player already has. 701.24b If a permanent or player chosen this way has more than one kind of counter, the player who is proliferating chooses which kind of counter to add."

So basically my question is this.... is the keyword text outdated and wrong? I cannot proliferate a creature to get several different counters (providing each one is of a unique type)?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

They say the same thing. "Another counter of a kind already there" is functionally identical to "one additional counter of a kind that player or permanent already has". Proliferating only gives one counter, period.

The reminder text for Proliferate (not "keyword text") is a summary of the full rules for the keyword, meant to make it easy to understand the basics while taking up a limited amount of space on the card. The full text of the keyword's entry in the Comprehensive Rules is the final word on how it works, and on what the reminder text is intended to mean.

February 24, 2015 7:43 p.m.