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"Find me cards equivalent to: Desertion"

Similar cards (blue instants that counter and take control):
1. Desertion (your requested card): Does exactly what you described.
2. Spelljack: Costs 6 mana, exiles any spell and lets you cast it for free.
3. Commandeer: Can exile two blue cards from hand to take control of any noncreature spell.
4. Dream Fracture: Counters any spell, but both players draw a card (does not gain control).
5. Mindbreak Trap: Exiles spells, no control effect (just similar blue instant counter).
6. Plagiarize: Instant steal draw effect (not the same, but related).

Closest equivalents: Spelljack and Commandeer (both blue, instant, take control of spells). No card is an exact copy except Desertion itself.

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Commandeer

Desertion

Dream Fracture

Mindbreak Trap

Plagiarize

Spelljack

Commandeer #9 Instant

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  • After Commandeer resolves, you control the targeted spell. Any instance of "you" in that spell's text now refers to you, "an opponent" refers to one of your opponents, and so on. The change of control happens before new targets are chosen, so any targeting restrictions such as "target opponent" or "target creature you control" are now made in reference to you, not the spell's original controller. You may either change those targets to be legal in reference to you, or, if those are the spell's only targets, the spell doesn't resolve for having illegal targets. When the spell resolves, any illegal targets are unaffected by it and you make all decisions the spell's effect calls for.
  • If the targeted spell has a triggered ability that copies it (for example, replicate or storm), the copies will be controlled by the player who cast that spell.
  • If you don't have two cards of the right color in your hand, you can't choose to cast the spell using the alternative cost.
  • If you gain control of an instant or sorcery spell with Commandeer, it will still be put into its owner's graveyard when it resolves.
  • You can't exile a card from your hand to pay for itself. At the time you would pay costs, that card is on the stack, not in your hand.
  • You may change any of the targeted spell's targets. If you change a target, you must choose a legal target for the spell. If you can't, you must leave the target the same (even if that target is now illegal).
  • You may pay the alternative cost rather than the card's mana cost. Any additional costs are paid as normal.
  • If you Commandeer a spell for which buyback has been paid, the card returns to its owner's hand.

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    Manapool 2.95 USD / 10.88 USD
    Tcgplayer / 10.94 USD 3.74 USD
    Cardkingdom 5.49 USD
    Cardmarket 1.46 EUR / 4.56 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

    Desertion #31 Instant

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
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  • If the spell is not countered (because the spell it targets can't be countered), then this card's ability does not put the card onto the battlefield. The spell continues to resolve as normal.
  • The card is put onto the battlefield, but any effects that check if the original card was "cast from your hand" will not trigger or otherwise consider the card to have been cast from your hand. The card was put onto the battlefield by the effect of Desertion instead.
  • This spell includes a replacement effect. If the target is an artifact or creature spell, it never goes to the graveyard.

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    Manapool 1.14 USD / 4.25 USD
    Cardmarket 2 EUR / 4.7 EUR
    Tcgplayer 2.27 USD / 4.55 USD
    Cardkingdom 2.79 USD / 5.99 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

    Dream Fracture #CNS-95 Instant

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    Converted Cost: 3
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    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card. Draw a card.

    Mindbreak Trap #11 Instant — Trap

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • For Mindbreak Trap's alternative cost to apply, a single opponent must cast three or more spells. Three opponents each casting a single spell won't work, for example.
  • If a spell is exiled, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works on spells that can't be countered.
  • Mindbreak Trap's alternative cost condition checks whether an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, not whether those spells have resolved.

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

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    If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.

    Plagiarize #44 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • If you target yourself, this spell has no useful effect. It will not cause an infinite loop since a replacement effect can’t modify the same event more than once. This effect will not modify the draw that it has you perform.
  • If you and your opponent each cast Plagiarize on each other during the same turn, the two spells effectively cancel each other out. You will draw cards when you normally would and so will your opponent.
  • If you target a player whose library is empty, any effect or turn-based action that would cause that player to draw a card will cause you to draw a card instead. It doesn’t matter that the other player would be unable to draw.
  • You draw the card from your library as normal, not from your opponent’s library.

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    Cardmarket 0.53 EUR / 3.73 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.39 USD / 4.83 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD / 7.99 USD
    Manapool 0.18 USD / 5.1 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

    Spelljack #51 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
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  • If you cast an instant or sorcery, it goes to its owner’s graveyard when it resolves.
  • This spell can be used on a spell cast using Flashback.
  • If you use this on an opponent’s spell which has Buyback, you may pay the Buyback cost as you cast it. If you do so, the card will go to its owner’s hand upon resolution. It will not go to your hand, nor to any player’s graveyard.

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    Tcgplayer / 12.4 USD 1.6 USD
    Cardmarket 1.02 EUR / 11.01 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 9.99 USD 2.29 USD
    Manapool 1.12 USD / 5.72 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)