Adaptive Gemguard LCI 0003 · common
Adaptive Gemguard · {3}{W} · Artifact Creature — Gnome · Tap two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. · Power / toughness: 3/3 · Left to their own devices, gnomes reengineer their own devices.
- Price
- from $0.101 printing
- Win rate
- 53.8% GIH 57,783 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickTurns spare untapped creatures and artifacts into lasting counters at sorcery speed.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 31,076 wins in 57,783 card-in-hand instances.
53,122 distinct games · 18,735 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.
17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Turns spare untapped creatures and artifacts into lasting counters at sorcery speed.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Make multiple bodies and spare artifacts, then tap the pieces you are not attacking with for repeatable rewards. Look for support such as Tinker's Tote and Oltec Cloud Guard.
- What to take next
- Tote supplies three untapped permanents. Two can pay Caparocti’s attack trigger while other creatures keep attacking.
- Wrong pick
- Choose your taps carefully: a creature tapped for Caparocti cannot also attack unless it was already declared as a vigilance attacker.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Turns spare untapped creatures and artifacts into lasting counters at sorcery speed.
Draft data
−1.6 pp vs 55.3% average · 57,783 instances
Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games
#160 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.6 on average (244,047 packs).
29 of 42 white cards · 12 of 19 white common cards.
72,709 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 53.4% · 22,988 instances
● Drawn later 54.0% · 34,795 instances
In hand 53.8% · 57,783 instances
Unseen in deck 55.0% · 83,806 instances
−1.2 percentage points when drawn
Compared with white cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Oltec Ingenuity WU55.8%22,997 instancesThousand-Moon Legion RW54.1%13,130 instancesDusk Legion Pilgrimage WB52.4%5,480 instancesMalamet Tactics GW52.0%3,268 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.8% · 57,783 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Cogwork Wrestler+3.0 pp27,771 games with both in the deck · 6,217 both drawnMalamet War Scribe+3.2 pp19,152 games with both in the deck · 3,358 both drawnAttentive Sunscribe+1.9 pp52,421 games with both in the deck · 11,550 both drawnHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 36% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | draft · set | $0.10 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · draft · set | $0.15 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 27 packs (3.70%) · 36.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 565 packs (0.18%) · 6.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 11 packs (9.36%) · 97.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 188 packs (0.53%) · 14.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.31%) · 73.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Booster | Commons | 100% per position | Commons |
| Draft Booster | Common or traditional foil | 67% | Common |
| Draft Booster | Common or traditional foil | 33% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Set Booster | Commons | 100% per position | Commons |
| Set Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Set Booster | Wildcards | 100% per position | Wildcards |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil commons | 100% per position | Traditional foil commons |
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Anthony Devine, LCI 3 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Thousand-Moon Legion cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗