Adaptive Automaton
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Combos with Adaptive Automaton
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw Clock of Omens Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite tapped Treasure tokens
- Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-11-08
Even though Adaptive Automaton is a Construct, other Construct creatures you control won't get +1/+1 unless you chose Construct as Adaptive Automaton entered the battlefield.
- 2024-11-08
The choice of creature type is made as Adaptive Automaton enters. Players can't take any actions between the time the choice is made and the time the appropriate creatures begin to get +1/+1.
- 2024-11-08
You must choose an existing creature type, such as Human or Warrior. Card types such as artifact and supertypes such as legendary can't be chosen.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Adaptive Automaton, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namor the Sub-Mariner | 1 | 7 | 42.9% |
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 1 | 0 | — |
| Hurska Sweet-Tooth | 1 | 0 | — |
| Millicent, Restless Revenant | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sliver Overlord | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
- Selesnya 1 deck
- Azorius 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
Adaptive Automaton price history
The Foundations #723 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.46 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.51 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.49 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.44 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.48 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.46 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.44 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Adaptive Automaton
8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Foil
- $0.39
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $7.09
- Foil
- $6.94
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Normal
- $1.19
- Foil
- $2.50
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Normal
- $1.55
- Foil
- $1.65
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $2.02
- Foil
- $2.20
Explorers of Ixalan
- Normal
- $1.93
- Normal
- $1.47
- Foil
- $3.68
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Adaptive Automaton. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
