Adaptive Shimmerer
Creature — Insect
Flash
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #22837
Adaptive Shimmerer enters with a +1/+1 counter for each instant and sorcery in your graveyard, making it a potentially massive body for its mana cost in any spell-heavy deck. The ceiling is real, but so is the dependency — an empty graveyard means you're paying five mana for a 1/1.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Adaptive Shimmerer slots naturally into Izzet or spellslinger builds that already fill the graveyard fast — the 100-card singleton format gives you plenty of cheap cantrips and interaction to fuel it. Pauper is where Adaptive Shimmerer has the most structural relevance, since common-legal win conditions at common power levels make a scalable beater meaningful. In Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy it's outclassed by creatures that don't require graveyard setup to be competitive threats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: fine in a spell-heavy shell, invisible anywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Adaptive Shimmerer is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin or grabbing a playset for the price of a pack of gum. Bulk commons rarely appreciate, so run it because the effect fits your deck, not because the price has anywhere to go.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.