Adaptive Gemguard is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Tap two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
How it works : Adaptive Gemguard
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Phyrexian Altar + Doubling Season
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying
and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens. - 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting two +1/+1 counters on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#2
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Phyrexian Altar + Parallel Lives
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting a +1/+1 counter on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#3
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Phyrexian Altar + Mondrak, Glory Dominus
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting a +1/+1 counter on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#4
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Phyrexian Altar + Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating three 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping two Saprolings, putting a +1/+1 counter on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#5
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Utopia Mycon + Mondrak, Glory Dominus
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting a +1/+1 counter on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Utopia Mycon's second ability by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#6
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Utopia Mycon + Doubling Season
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting two +1/+1 counters on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Utopia Mycon's second ability by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#7
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Phyrexian Altar + Anointed Procession
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting a +1/+1 counter on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#8
Adaptive Gemguard + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Utopia Mycon + Parallel Lives
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ghave's first ability by paying and removing a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, creating two 1/1 Saproling creature tokens.
- 2Activate Adaptive Gemguard by tapping the Saprolings, putting a +1/+1 counter on Adaptive Gemguard.
- 3Activate Utopia Mycon's second ability by sacrificing a Saproling, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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Legal formats
standardfuturehistorictimelessgladiatorpioneermodernlegacypaupervintagepennycommanderoathbreakerstandardbrawlbrawlcompetitivebrawlpaupercommanderduel
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