---
name: "Steady Progress"
mana_cost: "{2}{U}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Instant"
colors: ["U"]
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Proliferate"]
set: "PLST"
set_name: "The List"
collector_number: "MM2-58"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Efrem Palacios"
oracle_id: "d2145ad3-fe7e-459b-b155-1b3ed089e936"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/steady-progress-plst"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Steady Progress
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{U}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Instant
- **Keywords:** Proliferate

## Oracle Text
Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

> *"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing."*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Contentious Plan](/printing/contentious-plan-sld.md) — Sorcery
2. [Vivisurgeon's Insight](/printing/vivisurgeons-insight-one.md) — Sorcery
3. [Inexorable Tide](/printing/inexorable-tide-ha2.md) — Enchantment
4. [Fuel for the Cause](/printing/fuel-for-the-cause-mbs.md) — Instant
5. [Tezzeret's Gambit](/printing/tezzerets-gambit-sta.md) — Sorcery
6. [Experimental Augury](/printing/experimental-augury-plst.md) — Instant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** The List (PLST) #MM2-58
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Efrem Palacios
- **Total Printings:** 14 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`