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Doubling Season

Enchantment

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.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
Price
$38.47
EDHREC rank
#203
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Doubling Season card art
Doubling Season lands and immediately doubles every token and counter your permanents produce for the rest of the game — the on-board swing is immediate and massive. At five mana it's a steep ask, but commanders like The Goose Mother and Camellia, the Seedmiser put it to work the turn it resolves, making the cost feel like a discount.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Goose Mother

The Goose Mother

57.2% of decks · synergy 0.47

The Goose Mother makes Food tokens whenever it attacks, and Doubling Season turns each of those tokens into two — more artifacts to sacrifice, more life to gain, and a faster path to absurd board states than any other single enchantment in the deck.

02
Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave, Guru of Spores

56.0% of decks · synergy 0.46

Ghave, Guru of Spores lives on the interaction between counters and tokens, and Doubling Season doubles both simultaneously, making every activation of Ghave exponentially more explosive and enabling infinite loops that otherwise require multiple moving parts.

03
Primo, the Unbounded

Primo, the Unbounded

56.2% of decks · synergy 0.46

Primo, the Unbounded generates tokens as its core function, and Doubling Season makes every trigger produce twice the board presence — it's the single card most likely to turn a Primo attack step into a winning board state.

04
Zaxara, the Exemplary

Zaxara, the Exemplary

52.2% of decks · synergy 0.45

Zaxara, the Exemplary creates Hydra tokens with X counters whenever you cast an X spell, and Doubling Season doubles the counters on those tokens, meaning every big X spell produces a creature twice as large as the spell alone would warrant.

05
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

54.8% of decks · synergy 0.43

Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider already doubles counters placed on your permanents, and stacking Doubling Season on top means counters are effectively quadrupled — planeswalker ultimates become reachable in one or two activations and +1/+1 strategies spiral out of control instantly.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Doubling Season is a defining card — the combination of planeswalker synergy, token strategies, and counter-based commanders makes it one of the most impactful five-mana enchantments in the format. In competitive Commander it's a staple in any deck where the effect is relevant; in casual tables it's often treated as a signal that the pilot is serious. Doubling Season is technically legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Standard, but sees effectively zero play in those formats — five mana for a non-interactive enchantment is too slow and too conditional in games decided before turn four or five. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it shows up with purpose, since planeswalker-centric strategies can leverage the loyalty-doubling effect to ultimate on the first activation.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

11,967 decks
Camellia, the SeedmiserPeregrin TookAcademy ManufactorDoubling Season

Camellia, the SeedmiserPeregrin TookAcademy ManufactorDoubling Season

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite Clue tokens; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on an infinite number of creature tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on Squirrels you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Parallel Lives covers the token half of Doubling Season for around $8 and is the first cut-down to consider if $38 is out of range — you lose the counter doubling and the planeswalker synergy, but token decks often care more about quantity than the rest. Primal Vigor is another near-equivalent at under $5 that doubles both tokens and counters, though it helps opponents too, which is a real cost Doubling Season never imposes.

Price Context

Current price

$38.47 premium tier

At $38.47, Doubling Season sits firmly in the premium tier — expensive enough to feel it, not so expensive it's out of reach for players building a serious Commander collection. It's a heavily reprinted card that has held value through multiple printings, which is a reliable signal of genuine demand rather than artificial scarcity.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.