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Adaptive Gemguard
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lost Caverns of IxalanLCI · #3
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Gnome
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.04 € · ★ 0.06 € · 0.10 $ · ★ 0.11 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card text
Tap two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Anthony Devine
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-11-17
Flavour text
Left to their own devices, gnomes reengineer their own devices.
Rulings
You can tap any two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control, including Adaptive Gemguard itself and other creatures you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn, to pay the cost of Adaptive Gemguard's activated ability.