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"Find me cards equivalent to: Nix"

Equivalents to Nix (a blue instant that counters spells with no mana paid):
1. Pact of Negation — counters a spell for free, though requires a later payment.
2. Foil — can be cast for free by discarding two islands.
3. Disrupting Shoal — free counterspell if you exile a blue card of matching cost.
4. Misdirection — changes a spell's target, can be free.

All are blue, like Nix, and interact with countering or spells for little/no mana.

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Disrupting Shoal

Foil

Misdirection

Nix

Pact of Negation

Disrupting Shoal #51 Instant — Arcane

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
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  • Instant
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  • Arcane
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    Rules

  • Disrupting Shoal can target any spell, but does nothing unless that spell's mana value is X.
  • If a card in your hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the mana value of that spell, even if it was cast for an alternative cost and no mana was spent on X.

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    Tcgplayer / 39.98 USD 16.05 USD
    Cardkingdom / 59.99 USD 16.99 USD
    Manapool / 45.95 USD 11.76 USD
    Cardmarket / 41.67 EUR 10.27 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    You may exile a blue card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell if its mana value is X.

    Foil #34 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
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    Cardkingdom / 399.99 USD 15.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 138.45 EUR 10.92 EUR
    Manapool / 182.35 USD 5.42 USD
    Tcgplayer / 239.99 USD 12.43 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    You maydiscardan Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

    Misdirection #1272 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
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    Rules

  • If there is no other legal target for the spell, this does not change the target.
  • Once the spell resolves, the new target is considered to be targeted by the deflected spell. This will trigger any effects which trigger on being targeted.
  • The target of a spell that targets another spell on the stack can be changed to any other spell on the stack, even if the new target will resolve before the spell does.
  • This does not check if the current target is legal. It just checks if the spell has a single target.
  • This only targets the spell being changed, not the original or new target of the spell it is affecting.
  • You can choose to make a spell on the stack target this spell (if such a target choice would be legal had the spell been cast while this spell was on the stack). The new target for the deflected spell is not chosen until this spell resolves. This spell is still on the stack when new targets are selected for the spell.
  • You can’t make a spell which is on the stack target itself.
  • You choose the spell to target on announcement, but you pick the new target for that spell on resolution.

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    Cardmarket 88.69 EUR
    Tcgplayer 77.11 USD
    Manapool 73.46 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

    Nix #55 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Rules

  • Nix can target any spell. The condition is checked only on resolution.
  • Nix checks whether any player paid mana to cast the spell, not whether its current controller did. If Commandeer is cast on a spell, then Nix is cast on that spell, Nix won’t counter it unless the player who originally cast that spell spent no mana to cast it.
  • Nix doesn’t check whether a spell’s mana cost is 0. Rather, it checks how much mana was actually spent to cast it. It can counter a spell with mana cost 0 (such as Slaughter Pact), a spell cast via an alternative nonmana cost (such as Allosaurus Rider) or alternative cost of {0} (such as Basking Rootwalla), a spell whose cost to cast it was reduced to 0 (such as Frogmite), a spell cast without paying its cost due to an effect (such as suspend or Mindleech Mass’s ability), or a copy of a spell, among other possibilities. It will not counter a spell that had an additional or alternative mana cost paid to cast it, regardless of that spell’s mana value (such as a face-down spell cast with morph, or an Ornithopter cast while Trinisphere is on the battlefield, for example).

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    Cardmarket 0.76 EUR / 1.8 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD / 16.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 42.65 USD 0.98 USD
    Manapool / 11.72 USD 0.51 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.

    Pact of Negation #77 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 0
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • Although originally printed with a characteristic-defining ability that defined its color, this card now has a color indicator. This color indicator can't be affected by text-changing effects (such as the one created by Crystal Spray), although color-changing effects can still overwrite it.
  • If Pact of Negation is countered or otherwise doesn't resolve (perhaps because its target became illegal), the delayed triggered ability that threatens you with a game loss won't trigger at the beginning of your next upkeep.
  • If Pact of Negation resolves with a legal target but fails to counter that spell (most likely because that spell can't be countered), the delayed triggered ability will still trigger at the beginning of your next upkeep and you will have to pay. Or else.

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    Manapool 14.53 USD / 47.66 USD
    Cardmarket 14.46 EUR / 36.28 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 79.99 USD 20.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 46.08 USD 16.08 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game.