SOMScars of Mirrodin

Contagion Engine

Contagion Engine from Scars of Mirrodin
Contagion Engine from Scars of Mirrodin

Artifact   {6} (CMC:6)

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls. {4}, {T}: Proliferate, then proliferate again. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there. Then do it again.)

Phyrexian

145 SOM • ENDaarken

Legal in: Modern,Extended,Scars of Mirrodin Block,Legacy,Vintage,Freeform,Prismatic,Tribal Wars Legacy,Classic,Singleton 100,Commander

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1/1/2011
You can choose any player that has a counter, including yourself.
1/1/2011
You can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them, such as suspended cards or a Lightning Storm on the stack.
1/1/2011
You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
1/1/2011
If a permanent chosen this way has multiple kinds of counters on it, only a single new counter is put on that permanent.
1/1/2011
Players can respond to the spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
1/1/2011
As Contagion Engine's activated ability resolves, you'll complete an entire proliferate action, then you'll complete a second proliferate action. You may choose different players and/or permanents, or different counters on those permanents, when you proliferate the second time.
1/1/2011
Players can't respond between the first and the second proliferate actions.

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