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"Find me cards equivalent to: Contractual Safeguard"

Equivalent cards to Contractual Safeguard (as white instants focused on distributing counters or protection):
1. Ajani's Presence — Instant, gives indestructible to creatures.

  • Similar protection theme.
    2. Unbreakable Formation — Instant, creatures gain indestructible and you can put +1/+1 counters if cast during your main phase (close to Addendum).
    3. Ephemerate — Instant, flickers a creature to save it (offers protection, not exactly counters).
    4. Together Forever (not instant, but interacts with counters and protection).


Reason: These are white instants or close that offer protection or interact with counters. None are identical to Contractual Safeguard but are the closest equivalents. Note: none copy all kinds of counters like Contractual Safeguard.

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Ajani's Presence

Contractual Safeguard

Ephemerate

Together Forever

Unbreakable Formation

Ajani's Presence #2 Instant

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  • If a spell or ability allows you to cast a strive spell without paying its mana cost, you must pay the additional costs for any targets beyond the first.
  • If all of the spell's targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. If one or more of its targets are legal when it tries to resolve, the spell will resolve and affect only those legal targets. It will have no effect on any illegal targets.
  • If such a spell is copied, and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. The player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, the player can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • The mana cost and mana value of strive spells don't change no matter how many targets they have. Strive abilities affect only what you pay.
  • You choose how many targets each spell with a strive ability has and what those targets are as you cast it. It's legal to cast such a spell with no targets, although this is rarely a good idea. You can't choose the same target more than once for a single strive spell.

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    Tcgplayer 0.21 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Manapool / 0.4 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.22 EUR / 0.82 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first. Any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don'tdestroythem.)

    Contractual Safeguard #14 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.
  • If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.
  • If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
  • If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may choose the shield counter for the second part of the spell.
  • Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
  • Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
  • “Shield” is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.

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    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD
    Manapool 1.58 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.39 EUR 1.23 EUR
    Tcgplayer 2.02 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a shieldcounteron a creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shieldcounterfrom it instead.) Choose a kind ofcounteron a creature you control. Put acounterof that kind on each other creature you control.

    Ephemerate #44 Instant

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Instant
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    Rebound

    Rules

  • Casting the card again due to rebound's delayed triggered ability is optional. If you choose not to cast the card, or if you can't (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the card will stay exiled. You won't get another chance to cast it on a future turn. If you do cast the card, it's put into its owner's graveyard as normal once it resolves.
  • If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand is countered or doesn't resolve (most likely because its targets have become illegal), none of its effects will happen, including rebound. The spell will be put into its owner's graveyard and you won't get to cast it again on your next turn.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.
  • Once the exiled creature returns, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.

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    Cardmarket 5.6 EUR / 11.54 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.49 USD / 14.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 8.84 USD 4.69 USD
    Manapool 4.16 USD / 8.22 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

    Together Forever #44 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Support

    Rules

  • If a creature without counters receives enough -1/-1 counters to reduce its toughness to 0 or less, Together Forever's ability can't be activated before state-based actions put that creature into its owner's graveyard.
  • If a spell with support has other abilities that target creatures, those abilities and the support ability can target the same creature.
  • If some, but not all, targets for a spell become illegal, the remaining targets are affected as appropriate. If all of a spell's targets become illegal, that spell doesn't resolve.
  • Support can target a creature another player controls.
  • Together Forever's activated ability checks whether the target creature has a counter on it as the ability is activated and as the ability resolves. If the creature loses its counters later in the turn, the delayed triggered ability will still return it to its owner's hand when it dies.
  • You can't put more than one +1/+1 counter on any one target using the support action.

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    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    When this enchantment enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1counteron each of up to two target creatures.) : Choose target creature with acounteron it. When that creature dies this turn, return that card to its owner's hand.

    Unbreakable Formation #7052 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Instant
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  • Unbreakable Formation affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't gain indestructible or vigilance and they won't get a +1/+1 counter.
  • Addendum abilities of instant spells apply while the spell is resolving, not immediately after casting it. If the spell is countered, you don't get the addendum bonus.
  • If an effect copies a spell with an addendum ability while it's on the stack, the copy wasn't cast at all, so you won't get the addendum bonus.

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    Tcgplayer 1.46 USD / 1.95 USD
    Cardkingdom / 3.99 USD 2.29 USD
    Cardmarket 2.09 EUR / 2.6 EUR
    Manapool 1.03 USD / 2.08 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1counteron each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.