Grateful Apparition

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Grateful Apparition: Creature - Spirit, Commander Masters. Flying. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{W}
Mana value
2
Type
Creature - Spirit
Colour identity
White (W)
Power / toughness
1/1
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Commander Masters (CMM)
Released
2023-08-04
Collector number
824
Artist
Izzy
Commander rank
1,836 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying, Proliferate

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About Grateful Apparition

Grateful Apparition is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white creature from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 824 in that set, with art by Izzy. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from War of the Spark (2019) to Final Fantasy Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).

Card text

Flying

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-02).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Grateful Apparition by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Grateful Apparition

Grateful Apparition has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #244Uncommon2025
The List (PLST) #WAR-17Uncommon2024
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) #73Uncommon2023
New Capenna Commander (NCC) #202Uncommon2022
War of the Spark (WAR) #17Uncommon2019

Official rulings

Six official rulings apply to Grateful Apparition, newest first.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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