Glistening Sphere
Glistening Sphere: Artifact, Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander. This artifact enters tapped. When this artifact enters, proliferate. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC)
- Released
- 2023-02-10
- Collector number
- 20
- Artist
- Tuan Duong Chu
- Commander rank
- 2,835 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Corrupted, Proliferate
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About Glistening Sphere
Glistening Sphere is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC), a Commander product released in February 2023. It is collector number 20 in that set, with art by Tuan Duong Chu. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $14.92 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
This artifact enters tapped.
When this artifact enters, proliferate.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Corrupted - {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $14.92 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Glistening Sphere by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Glistening Sphere
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) #58 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Glistening Sphere, newest first.
- An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- Players can respond to a 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.
- If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Glistening Sphere is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.