---
name: "Selective Adaptation"
mana_cost: "{4}{G}{G}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["G"]
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: []
set: "C20"
set_name: "Commander 2020"
collector_number: "65"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Tomasz Jedruszek"
oracle_id: "b68df6d7-d69e-446f-9b1b-7a6ca56efbec"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/selective-adaptation-c20"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Selective Adaptation
- **Mana Cost:** `{4}{G}{G}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle 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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Preferred Selection](/printing/preferred-selection-mir.md) — Enchantment
2. [Green Sun's Twilight](/printing/green-suns-twilight-pone.md) — Sorcery
3. [Animal Magnetism](/printing/animal-magnetism-ons.md) — Sorcery
4. [Enshrined Memories](/printing/enshrined-memories-bok.md) — Sorcery
5. [Relentless Pursuit](/printing/relentless-pursuit-j22.md) — Sorcery
6. [Winding Way](/printing/winding-way-plst.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Commander 2020 (C20) #65
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Tomasz Jedruszek
- **Total Printings:** 8 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`