A lot of the prints in Modern Masters reminded me of a silly fungus deck I thought of a while back. I got to thinking, if I go ahead and build that deck, I should be on the lookout for a Doubling Season at my shop. Then I noticed that they printed it in Modern Masters too! Oh Wizards, you shouldn't have! <3
TomTomat
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Wow, really digging the new art. Hopefully these won't be as hard to get anymore... hopefully.
flavioal28
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(8 votes)
This art isnt new, it's the judge gift program art. Great reprint for casual players though. Just don't use it against your friend's infect deck
Draft this with planeswalkers. I'm looking forward to it.
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
I won Gatherer a long time ago, but it is indeed (Butterfly's Comment) that this is Rare, not Mythic. :3
It's not 'New Art' but it is 'Perfect Art'. We don't get many Reprinted Judge Arts for high profile Judge Foils. Grim Lavamancer was the last one. One day, when Wizards loves us this much again, we will get Vindicate. <3
Actually....
No, I didn't win Gatherer. Doubling Season Won Gatherer just about before Gatherer was really a 'big THING'.
Doubling Season is the Chaotic Fun Enabler. (Makes Decks Work) Knowledge Pool is the Chaotic Fun Hater. (Blows the Game Up)
Between them, they OWN all Casual Chaotic Fun Gatherers :3
infernox10
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
The Casual Player's wet dream. This card has deserved to be put back into circulation for a long, long, LONG time now.
TheWallinator74
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm equally ecstatic and terrified that this one returned.
Earthdawn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Using the Judge promo art for the reprint? Boooooo :(
MostlyLost
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(10 votes)
And then Doubling Season was spoiled, and among Johnnies there was much rejoicing.
MithosFall
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Love this card, one of my absolute favourites. One of my first and more successful decks was a Saproling Swarm and this was an all-star player in that. Doubling Season combined with Mycoloth = devour 1 creature and get 8 tokens a turn. :D
ShatterPalm
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Hellooooooooooo Simic/ Selesnya deck......
LordOfTheFlies87
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Unbelievably good art reprint.
Lifegainwithbite
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Some strange strange person passed a foil one of these to me in draft. I suppose he could have pulled a Tarmogoyf or Bob from the same pack but I was still very very pleased.
psychichobo
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
This card sucks. My Persist deck has no use for it, and it makes Dark Depths a nightmare to get any use out of. Absolutely terrible!
Ferlord
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
It's nice that a few cards like this were printed in the Judge promo art. From what I can remember, I think Rift Bolt was as well.
Doubling Season is by no means the prefect card. If you were playing a burn deck, this would be a waste of 5 mana, whether you were playing Shrine of Burning Rage or not.
However, there are so few decks that CAN'T abuse this. This card gives your planeswalker's double their counters. AS IN, you could play Elspeth, Knight-Errant, get 8 counters instead of 4, and ultimate IMMEDIATELY. All we need is for her to be printed in the same set for that to happen... (:D). And remember, that's not even considering any Ghave, Forgotten Ancient or Vigor bulldookie.
This is one of the most dangerous spells in the game, hands down. If you see this in a deck, you KNOW they'll have something that abuses it.
SyntheticDreamer
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(9 votes)
This and Thallids in MMA draft = Saprolings. Saprolings everywhere.
DlCK
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(4 votes)
The only bad thing about Doubling Season is that it is inevitably auto-carded in the comments section of basically every other counter-producing or token-generating card in Gatherer, as if it is some sort of revolutionary combo no one has thought of before.
ScornfulHydra
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Just, just Primordial Hydra....
Ghengis_John
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I am SO happy they decided to reprint this. I didn't get into the game that long ago and the prospect of paying 40 dollars for one was unappealing. Now you can get 4 for almost that. Thankyou, wizards.
sweetgab
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
What's the best planeswalker to cast when you have Doubling Season? I think it would be Jace, Architect of Thought. Activate -8, search their library for best spell and your library for another Jace, AoT, then repeat til your deck has no more Jace, and that's when you search for Nicol Bolas.
In summary, 2UU gets you 3-4 best spells from your opponent's deck which you can cast immediately, plus Nicol Bolas's ultimate (plus a Nicol Bolas sitting at 1 loyalty).
I always say to myself, "what would doubling season do?"
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Summer 2013: 'Tis the season to be jolly...
Jezzatron
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How does this work with cards like Ooze Flux??
Say I remove 5 counters to get a 5/5 Ooze token.. what would the "copy" of it be?? Will it be a 5/5 as well??
Krysto
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(12 votes)
Doubling Season Opalescence Cackling Counterpart You now have three doubling seasons, which are 5/5s. Wake the Reflections You now have 11 Doubling seasons... which are 5/5s. Wake the Reflections again. You now have 2,059 doubling seasons... still 5/5s. Wake the Reflections one more time. You now have over 6.6x10^619 Doubling Seasons. They are all most certainly 5/5s.
If you flashback the Cackling Counterpart... <<ERROR: OVERFLOW))
Mr_McPippens
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Many months ago i was searching heavily for one of this for my ghave edh deck, not wanting to spend so much money i bought a japanese version instead for cheaper. Occasionally i have to look up the exact wording for my opponents.
cufnij
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hey guys, Pentavus says hello.
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think WotC reprinted this because they thought Jimmies weren't playing green enough.
Or, for that matter, you could use Parallel Evolution after the second Wake the Reflections. My calculator says 1.3627538534569853753788811489684e+623 5/5s.
Swag_Crow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Does the replacement effect affect itself?
-Swag_Crow
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Playing GW Thallids in a draft? This is your bomb rare. I don't know about you, but I would love to have my Thallids running four times as fast.
Pongdok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I like this card, but on this printing, I will hate rate it. Shut up, already. Yes, it interacts with tokens. Congratulations for noticing. You, like everyone else who plays this game, can read. Move along. Nothing to see here. (Math junkies get a pass, I guess, but should realize that in practical terms, any number that needs to be expressed using powers of other numbers might as well be 'gajillionhopeyouhaveawrath'.) The other art is better. 0.5/5
Rasder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cathar's crusade. f***k yeah.
SquiddyFish
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I run this in mah token deck with Cathar's Crusade and Fungal Sprouting. Add in Trostani and it doesn't take long to get a ridiculous amount of ridiculous/ridiculous saprolings, with an equally ridiculous life total. I love my token deck.
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You win Gatherer.
It's not 'New Art' but it is 'Perfect Art'. We don't get many Reprinted Judge Arts for high profile Judge Foils. Grim Lavamancer was the last one. One day, when Wizards loves us this much again, we will get Vindicate. <3
Actually....
No, I didn't win Gatherer. Doubling Season Won Gatherer just about before Gatherer was really a 'big THING'.
Doubling Season is the Chaotic Fun Enabler. (Makes Decks Work)
Knowledge Pool is the Chaotic Fun Hater. (Blows the Game Up)
Between them, they OWN all Casual Chaotic Fun Gatherers :3
This card has deserved to be put back into circulation for a long, long, LONG time now.
Doubling Season is by no means the prefect card. If you were playing a burn deck, this would be a waste of 5 mana, whether you were playing Shrine of Burning Rage or not.
However, there are so few decks that CAN'T abuse this. This card gives your planeswalker's double their counters. AS IN, you could play Elspeth, Knight-Errant, get 8 counters instead of 4, and ultimate IMMEDIATELY. All we need is for her to be printed in the same set for that to happen... (:D). And remember, that's not even considering any Ghave, Forgotten Ancient or Vigor bulldookie.
This is one of the most dangerous spells in the game, hands down. If you see this in a deck, you KNOW they'll have something that abuses it.
In summary, 2UU gets you 3-4 best spells from your opponent's deck which you can cast immediately, plus Nicol Bolas's ultimate (plus a Nicol Bolas sitting at 1 loyalty).
Say I remove 5 counters to get a 5/5 Ooze token.. what would the "copy" of it be?? Will it be a 5/5 as well??
Opalescence
Cackling Counterpart
You now have three doubling seasons, which are 5/5s.
Wake the Reflections
You now have 11 Doubling seasons... which are 5/5s.
Wake the Reflections again.
You now have 2,059 doubling seasons... still 5/5s.
Wake the Reflections one more time.
You now have over 6.6x10^619 Doubling Seasons. They are all most certainly 5/5s.
If you flashback the Cackling Counterpart...
<<ERROR: OVERFLOW))
There's another method to achieve similar results: Followed Footsteps.
Or, for that matter, you could use Parallel Evolution after the second Wake the Reflections. My calculator says 1.3627538534569853753788811489684e+623 5/5s.
-Swag_Crow