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"Find me cards equivalent to: The Water Crystal"

Equivalent cards to The Water Crystal (Legendary Artifact, Blue):
1. Helm of Awakening — All spells cost {1} less to cast (not blue specific, but cost reduction).
2. Jace's Archivist — Forces each player to discard and draw, enabling mill synergies.
3. Altar of the Brood — Triggers opponent mill when permanents enter.
4. Mesmeric Orb — Mills whenever a permanent becomes untapped.
5. Fraying Sanity — Doubles opponent's mill.
6. Ugin's Nexus — Legendary artifact with a unique, related effect.
7. Jace's Sanctum — Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.


Reason: All these are blue or colorless artifacts/creatures that help cast blue spells cheaper, amplify mill, or directly mill opponents, like The Water Crystal.

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Altar of the Brood

Fraying Sanity

Helm of Awakening

Jace's Archivist

Jace's Sanctum

Mesmeric Orb

The Water Crystal

Ugin's Nexus

Altar of the Brood #28 Artifact

Variations: v1 v2
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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 1
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • If Altar of the Brood enters the battlefield under your control at the same time as other permanents, its ability will trigger for each of those permanents.

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    Cardkingdom 59.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 60.37 USD
    Cardmarket 28.77 EUR
    Manapool 51.13 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

    Fraying Sanity #987 Enchantment — Aura Curse

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
  • Aura
  • Curse
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Enchant Mill

    Rules

  • Fraying Sanity's triggered ability counts the number of cards that were put into the enchanted player's graveyard during the turn, even if Fraying Sanity wasn't on the battlefield at the time those cards were put there, and even if those cards have left that graveyard.
  • The value of X is determined only as Fraying Sanity's triggered ability resolves. For example, if three Fraying Sanity Auras are attached to one player who had four cards put into their graveyard this turn, X will be four for the first ability to resolve, eight for the second, and sixteen for the third.

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    Tcgplayer 3.45 USD
    Cardkingdom 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.76 EUR
    Manapool 2.6 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Enchant player At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

    Helm of Awakening #379 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Rules

  • Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
  • If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell's cost, the cost reduction still applies.
  • The effect is cumulative.
  • The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell's cost.
  • The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
  • This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.

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    Tcgplayer 1.52 USD / 5.57 USD
    Cardkingdom 2.49 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.13 EUR 0.86 EUR
    Manapool 3.12 USD / 3.29 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Spells cost less to cast.

    Jace's Archivist #2515 Creature — Vedalken Wizard

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vedalken
  • Wizard
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If this ability causes a player to draw more cards than are left in their library, that player loses the game as a state-based action. If this ability causes all players to do this, the game is a draw.

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    Cardmarket / 7.87 EUR 9.67 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 12.34 USD 8.35 USD
    Cardkingdom / 11.99 USD 10.99 USD
    Manapool 9.02 USD / 12.07 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , : Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

    Jace's Sanctum #61 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • If there are additional costs to cast an instant or sorcery spell, apply those before applying cost reductions.
  • Jace’s Sanctum can reduce alternative costs such as miracle or overload costs.
  • Jace’s Sanctum’s scry ability will resolve before the instant or sorcery spell that caused it to trigger.
  • The first ability of Jace’s Sanctum can’t reduce the colored mana requirement of an instant or sorcery spell.

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    Cardkingdom / 4.49 USD 1.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.87 EUR / 1.85 EUR
    Manapool 0.5 USD / 1.87 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.6 USD / 3.07 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

    Mesmeric Orb #2457 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • If permanents become untapped during the untap step, Mesmeric Orb's ability will trigger that many times. However, since no player gets priority during the untap step, those abilities wait to be put on the stack until the upkeep starts. At that time, any "beginning of upkeep" triggers will also trigger. Those abilities and Mesmeric Orb's triggers are put onto the stack at the same time.

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    Cardkingdom / 20.99 USD 17.99 USD
    Manapool / 16.59 USD 17.81 USD
    Tcgplayer 18.32 USD / 17.07 USD
    Cardmarket / 15.23 EUR 14.6 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

    The Water Crystal #85s Legendary Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • If an opponent is instructed to put a card into their graveyard without using the word "mill," The Water Crystal's second ability doesn't apply.
  • In the rare case where you control two of The Water Crystal, each opponent mills eight more cards than originally instructed. If you control three, your opponents mill twelve more, and so on.
  • Some older cards have received errata to instruct a player to mill cards rather than to put the top cards of their library into their graveyard. Use the Oracle™ card reference at Gatherer.Wizards.com to determine whether a specific card has received such errata. As a rule of thumb, if an effect instructs a player to look at or reveal a card before it's put into its owner's graveyard, it's unlikely to have received errata.
  • The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of blue spells you cast.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of The Water Crystal's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

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    Seller Price
    Manapool 11.11 USD
    Tcgplayer 10.35 USD
    Cardkingdom 10.99 USD
    Cardmarket 4.53 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Blue spells you cast cost less to cast. If an opponent wouldmillone or more cards, theymillthat many cards plus four instead. , : Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.

    Ugin's Nexus #227 Legendary Artifact

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • An "extra turn" is any turn created by a spell or ability. Notably, it doesn't include additional turns taken in tournaments after time expires for a round.
  • Extra turns can still be created while Ugin's Nexus is on the battlefield. They're not skipped until they would begin, so if Ugin's Nexus leaves the battlefield before that happens, the extra turns will be unaffected.
  • Notably, if you control more than one Ugin's Nexus, all but one will be exiled and an extra turn created for each. If the Ugin's Nexus that remains on the battlefield isn't on the battlefield when each of those extra turns would begin, you can take those turns.

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    Manapool / 8.41 USD 0.77 USD
    Tcgplayer / 8.74 USD 1.5 USD
    Cardkingdom / 6.99 USD 1.79 USD
    Cardmarket 1.89 EUR / 5.51 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. If Ugin's Nexus would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, instead exile it and take an extra turn after this one.