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Doubling Season
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Doubling Season

{4}{G}

Enchantment

Legal Salt 1.16EDHREC #200

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Why is this card good?

Doubling Season is one of the format's premier "build-around payoff" enchantments, and its split nature lets it shine in two very different shells. For token decks (Rhys, Adeline, Krenko, go-wide aristocrats), every creature/Treasure/Clue generator doubles—turning a single trigger into board-warping value. For +1/+1 counter decks (Atraxa, Ghave, Hardened Scales builds), it doubles every counter, snowballing your creatures absurdly fast. The real reason it commands a premium is superfriends: it doubles loyalty counters, meaning your planeswalkers enter with double loyalty and can often ultimate the turn they land. That's a game-defining swing. When NOT to play it: it does nothing the turn you cast it—it's a do-nothing five-mana enchantment unless you immediately follow up. It's also a "win-more" magnet that paints a target on you. Skip it in decks without a critical mass of token or counter sources; in those, it's just an overpriced vanilla enchantment that gets blown up before it pays off.

Related cards

Parallel LivesG

Doubles token creation like the first half of Doubling Season.

Anointed ProcessionW

White token doubler, same effect in different color.

Hardened ScalesG

Adds extra +1/+1 counters, similar counter-boosting role.

Branching EvolutionG

Doubles counters placed on creatures you control.

Doubling CubeC

Wait—actually irrelevant

Vorinclex, Monstrous RaiderG

Doubles your counters and tokens, planeswalker abilities too.

Primal VigorG

Doubles tokens and counters for all players, green version.

Innkeeper's TalentG

Doubles counters placed on permanents you control.

Printings (17)

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Rulings (5)

  • 2024-11-08

    Planeswalkers will enter with double the normal number of loyalty counters. However, if you activate an ability whose cost has you put loyalty counters on a planeswalker, the number you put on isn't doubled. This is because those counters are put on as a cost, not as an effect.

  • 2024-11-08

    Everything that is specified by the effect creating the original token or tokens will also be true about the additional token or tokens created by Doubling Season's replacement effect. For example, if an effect tells you to create a token "tapped and attacking," the additional tokens will also be tapped and attacking.

  • 2024-11-08

    Doubling Season affects permanents that enter with counters.

  • 2024-11-08

    Battles will enter with double the normal number of defense counters.

  • 2024-11-08

    If there are two Doubling Seasons on the battlefield, then the number of tokens or counters is four times the original number. If there are three on the battlefield, then the number of tokens or counters is eight times the original number, and so on.

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