Adaptive Snapjaw
Creature — Lizard Beast
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21975
Adaptive Snapjaw is a 5/2 for five mana with evolve — a statline so lopsided it dies to almost every creature it needs to trigger off of. There are no formats where a vanilla-adjacent five-drop with 2 toughness earns a slot.
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 |
Adaptive Snapjaw is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as playability. In Pauper, five mana buys you threats with immediate impact or resilience — Adaptive Snapjaw offers neither. In Commander, evolve creatures need to snowball fast to justify space in a 99-card deck, and a 5/2 body evaporates before it can grow. Across every format where it's legal, there is a better option at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Adaptive Snapjaw is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box. That price reflects the demand accurately, and it's not going to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.