First printed in Gatecrash (2013)
All 5 prints
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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #306, 2025
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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #300, 2023
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Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC) #140, 2021
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RNA Guild Kit (GK2) #112, 2019
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Gatecrash (GTC) #123, 2013
Gyre Sage 
Creature — Elf Druid
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.)
: Add for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.
1/2
- Illustrated by
- Tyler Jacobson
- Watermark
- Simic
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (7)
- Gyre Sage's last ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
- If a creature enters the battlefield with +1/+1 counters on it, consider those counters when determining if evolve will trigger. For example, a 1/1 creature that enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it will cause the evolve ability of a 2/2 creature to trigger.
- If multiple creatures enter the battlefield at the same time, evolve may trigger multiple times, although the stat comparison will take place each time one of those abilities tries to resolve. For example, if you control a 2/2 creature with evolve and two 3/3 creatures enter the battlefield, evolve will trigger twice. The first ability will resolve and put a +1/+1 counter on the creature with evolve. When the second ability tries to resolve, neither the power nor the toughness of the new creature is greater than that of the creature with evolve, so that ability does nothing.
- When comparing the stats as the evolve ability resolves, it's possible that the stat that's greater changes from power to toughness or vice versa. If this happens, the ability will still resolve and you'll put a +1/+1 counter on the creature with evolve. For example, if you control a 2/2 creature with evolve and a 1/3 creature enters the battlefield under your control, it toughness is greater so evolve will trigger. In response, the 1/3 creature gets +2/-2. When the evolve trigger tries to resolve, its power is greater. You'll put a +1/+1 counter on the creature with evolve.
- Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, check its power and toughness against the power and toughness of the creature with evolve. If neither stat of the new creature is greater, evolve won't trigger at all.
- If evolve triggers, the stat comparison will happen again when the ability tries to resolve. If neither stat of the new creature is greater, the ability will do nothing. If the creature that entered the battlefield leaves the battlefield before evolve tries to resolve, use its last known power and toughness to compare the stats.
- When comparing the stats of the two creatures for evolve, you always compare power to power and toughness to toughness.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).
Combos
38 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Gyre Sage + Staff of Domination
- Infinite green mana, Infinitely large creature until end of turn…: Gyre Sage + Umbral Mantle
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce, Infinite untap of creatures you control…: Gyre Sage + Sword of the Paruns
- Infinite green mana, Infinite proliferate: Experiment Kraj + Gilder Bairn + Gyre Sage
- Infinite colored mana: Gyre Sage + Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Pili-Pala
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Gyre Sage + Mirror Entity + Wirewood Symbiote
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Gyre Sage + Scryb Ranger
- Infinite green mana, Infinite proliferate: Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Gilder Bairn + Gyre Sage
- Infinite green mana, Infinite proliferate: Gilder Bairn + Gyre Sage + Mimeoplasm, Revered One
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Gyre Sage + Hyrax Tower Scout + Temur Sabertooth
