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"Find me cards equivalent to: Better Than One"

There are no exact equivalents to Better Than One. It's unique in letting a person outside the game become your teammate. That said, here are some green-white (G, W) sorceries with multiplayer or team themes:

  • Join Forces (white) — Team effects, encourages cooperation.
  • Rootborn Defenses (white-green) — Protective team play.
  • Collective Effort (white) — Players cooperate via convoke.


Reason: Better Than One is a silver-bordered Un-set card and its effect is not seen in regular black-bordered Magic cards. Nearest equivalents involve team or cooperative effects in white and green.

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Better Than One

Collective Effort

Join Forces

Rootborn Defenses

Better Than One #44 Sorcery

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Rarity: Rare
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • For game purposes, your new teammate becomes the owner of the cards you give them for their library, hand, and permanents. Remember to get your cards back after the game.
  • If there’s no one around to make a decision, you can call or text someone if you need to. If there’s a physical action required, such as high-fiving, you’ll need someone there.
  • It doesn’t have to be someone who plays Magic. This may be fun.
  • You and your new teammate become a Two-Headed Giant team and play under Two-Headed Giant rules from that point forward. Similarly, if you pick up a second teammate, you and your two teammates becomes a Three-Headed Giant team, and so on.
  • You can choose any player not currently in your game. This includes people who used to be in your game but left it.
  • You can give your new teammate Contraptions you control. You can also give them face down cards from your Contraption deck so they can form their own Contraption deck.
  • Your new teammate must agree to play with you, although they don’t necessarily need to know how to play.
  • Your new teammate must be someone not already in your game, although it can be someone who was once in your game but left.

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    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.22 USD
    Manapool 0.25 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    A person outside the game becomes your teammate. (Choose any number of cards in your hand, on top of your library, or on the battlefield under your control. Those cards become your teammate's hand, library, and permanents, respectively.)

    Collective Effort #17s Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Escalate

    Rules

  • If you choose the first and third modes, and destroying the creature ends an "exile until" effect (such as that of Lunarch Inquisitors), the creature will return to the battlefield before you put +1/+1 counters on creatures. The same is true if you choose the second and third modes and destroying the enchantment ends such an effect.
  • You can tap any untapped creature you control to pay the escalate cost, including one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn.

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    Manapool 0.6 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.67 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Cardmarket 1.33 EUR / 0.92 EUR

    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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    Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — •Destroytarget creature with power 4 or greater. •Destroytarget enchantment. • Put a +1/+1counteron each creature target player controls.

    Join Forces #21 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Cardmarket / 0.05 EUR 0.07 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.15 USD 0.07 USD
    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 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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    Untap up to two target creatures. They each get +2/+2 until end of turn.

    Rootborn Defenses #26 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Populate

    Rules

  • Rootborn Defenses affects only creatures you control after populating at the time it resolves. The creature token you create will gain indestructible, but creatures you begin to control later in the turn will not.
  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied token will trigger when the new token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied token will also work.
  • If you choose to copy a creature token that's a copy of another creature, the new creature token will copy the characteristics of whatever the original token is copying.
  • If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.
  • Populate doesn't target the creature token you're copying. You choose that creature token as you're taking the populate action. You can choose any creature token you control. If a spell or ability causes you to create a creature token and then instructs you to populate, you may choose to copy the token you just created, or you may choose to copy another creature token you control.
  • The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that created the original token.
  • The new token doesn't copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.

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    Tcgplayer / 0.39 USD 0.36 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.26 EUR 0.17 EUR
    Manapool / 0.36 USD 0.15 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)