Selective Adaptation

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Selective Adaptation: Sorcery, Commander 2020. Reveal the top seven cards of your library. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Mana value
6
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Green (G)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Commander 2020 (C20)
Released
2020-04-17
Collector number
65
Artist
Tomasz Jedruszek
Commander rank
16,847 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Selective Adaptation

Selective Adaptation is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green sorcery from Commander 2020 (C20), a Commander product released in April 2020. It is collector number 65 in that set, with art by Tomasz Jedruszek. It costs {4}{G}{G} (four generic and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Commander 2020 is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.27 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Reveal the top seven cards of your library. Choose from among them a card with flying, a card with first strike, and so on for double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Put one of the chosen cards onto the battlefield, the other chosen cards into your hand, and the rest into your graveyard.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.27 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Selective Adaptation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Selective Adaptation.

  • If a card has more than one of the listed keywords, you pick which keyword you’re choosing it for. For example, if you choose a card with flying and first strike, you may choose it as the card with flying and choose another card with first strike, or you may choose it as the card with first strike and choose another card with flying.

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