Adaptive OmnitoolHow it works & interactions with other cards

What it Does

Adaptive Omnitool provides two distinct benefits. First, it offers a static power and toughness boost to the equipped creature equal to the total number of artifacts you control, including the Omnitool itself. Second, it features a triggered ability that occurs whenever the equipped creature attacks, allowing you to search the top six cards of your library for another artifact to add to your hand.

Resolving the Attack Trigger

When the equipped creature is declared as an attacker, the triggered ability goes on the stack. Upon resolution, you look at the top six cards of your library. You may choose one artifact card from those six, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Any remaining cards, including any artifacts you didn't choose, are placed on the bottom of your library in a random order. Note that this happens during the declare attackers step, before blockers are chosen.

Strategic Timing and Synergies

Because the stat bonus is dynamic, your creature's power and toughness can change mid-combat if you cast flash artifacts or if artifacts are destroyed. To maximize the value of the attack trigger, ensure you have a creature ready to swing as soon as the Omnitool is equipped. It is often best to equip this to a creature with evasion, such as flying, to ensure you can safely trigger the search ability every turn.

Common Mistakes

A common error is forgetting that Adaptive Omnitool counts itself for the +1/+1 bonus. Also, players sometimes forget to randomize the cards put back on the bottom; you cannot choose the order of the remaining five cards. Finally, remember that the artifact you find with the attack trigger cannot be played immediately to boost the creature's power for that specific combat unless it has Flash, as you are currently in the combat phase.

Interaction examples

Boosting Power with Mana Rocks

Sol RingArcane Signet

If you control Adaptive Omnitool, Sol Ring, and Arcane Signet, you control three artifacts. The equipped creature will receive +3/+3. If you use the mana from Sol Ring to cast another artifact before combat, the bonus immediately increases to +4/+4.

Digging for Resources

Sol Ring

You attack with a creature equipped with Adaptive Omnitool. The trigger resolves, and you look at your top six cards. You see a Sol Ring and five lands. You reveal the Sol Ring to put it into your hand, helping you accelerate your mana for the next turn, while the lands are shuffled and placed on the bottom.