Adaptive Automaton
Secret Lair Drop 1109 • rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Collector number
- 1109
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jack Hughes
- Market price
- $6.71
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.
Always on trend.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Adaptive Automaton was originally introduced in the 2011 Magic: The Gathering set Magic 2012 as a versatile tribal support card, designed to function as a lord for any creature type chosen upon entering the battlefield. Its mechanical identity centers on its modularity, providing a pump effect to specific creature types while itself being an artifact creature, which allows it to slot into a wide range of tribal-focused decks.
The Secret Lair drop version, illustrated by Jack Hughes, was released as part of a specialized, limited-run product line that often highlights distinct artistic styles outside of the standard game aesthetic. Hughes employed a stylized, high-contrast visual approach for this iteration, leaning into the mechanical nature of the automaton while emphasizing a sleek, contemporary design language that differentiates it from the traditional fantasy illustrations typically found in the core set expansions.
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