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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Biomancer's Familiar

Equivalent cards to Biomancer's Familiar (blue and green, cost reduction for activations) include:

  • Training Grounds (Blue, reduces activation costs)
  • Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy (Blue/Green, boosts activated abilities with mana abilities)
  • Heartstone (Colorless, reduces activation costs for all creatures)


Reason: These all interact with activated abilities' costs or effects within blue/green identity.

Results:

Biomancer's Familiar #158s Creature — Mutant

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Mutant
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Biomancer’s Familiar.
  • An ability that has only one generic mana and some amount of other mana symbols in its activation cost will have its cost reduced by {1}.
  • Biomancer’s Familiar affects only abilities of creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of creature cards that work in other zones (such as cycling) won’t be reduced.
  • The last ability of Biomancer’s Familiar doesn’t add or remove any counters. It just lets the creature adapt despite already having +1/+1 counters on it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 18.06 USD
    Cardmarket 4.2 EUR
    Manapool 13.85 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. : The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.

    Heartstone #STH-134 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • It will never reduce any colored mana portion of an activation cost.
  • It will not add a {1} to abilities with no generic mana in their activation cost.
  • The cost reduction can be applied to additional costs.
  • Can’t reduce Snow mana costs.
  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 2.11 USD
    Cardmarket 2.34 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.99 USD
    Manapool 2.44 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy #192p Legendary Creature — Human Druid

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Druid
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Kinnan doesn’t care about any restrictions or riders the nonland permanent put on the mana it produced. The additional mana Kinnan produces won’t have any restrictions or riders.
  • The additional mana is produced by Kinnan, not by the nonland permanent that you tapped for mana.
  • The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.
  • You’re “tapping a permanent for mana” only if you’re activating a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its cost. A mana ability produces mana as part of its effect.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 21.53 USD / 57.49 USD
    Cardmarket 15.54 EUR / 20.09 EUR
    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD / 89.99 USD
    Manapool 20.24 USD / 53.44 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 you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced. : Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

    Training Grounds #20 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Rules

  • Training Grounds won't affect a cost that isn't the cost to activate a creature's activated ability. For example, it won't affect Flameblast Dragon's {X}{R} cost, since that's a cost paid when a triggered ability resolves, and it won't affect a kicker cost, since that's an additional cost to cast a spell. Activated ability costs appear before a colon (:) in a card's rules text, or, in the case of some keywords, before a colon in reminder text.
  • If an activated ability of a creature you control costs no generic mana to activate (for example, if it costs {R}{R}, it costs {0}, or it costs only nonmana actions such as {T} or "Sacrifice a creature"), Training Grounds simply won't affect it. In particular, it won't increase the cost to include a mana payment of {1}.
  • Training Grounds affects only creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities that work in other zones (such as cycling or unearth) won't be reduced.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the amount you pay for a creature's activated ability cost that includes {X}. For example, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief has an activated ability that costs {X}{B}{B}. If you control Training Grounds and you activate the ability with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{B}{B}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana, as Crimson Hellkite's ability does.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the part of an activation cost represented by generic mana symbols down to nothing, as long as it still costs at least one mana. For example, if an activation cost is {2}{G}, you'd have to pay only {G}. If an activation cost is {2}, though, you'd still have to pay {1}.
  • Training Grounds reduces the generic mana in waterbend costs for activated abilities. It will not reduce waterbend costs that are additional costs for casting spells.
  • Training Grounds takes the total cost to activate a creature's activated ability into account, not just the cost printed on it. For example, Urabrask has an activated ability that costs {R}, and Suppression Field says "Activated abilities cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities." Since activating Urabrask's activated ability would now cost {2}{R}, Training Grounds reduces that cost back to {R}.
  • Training Grounds won't affect the part of an activation cost represented by colored mana symbols or snow mana symbols. It also won't affect nonmana parts of an activation cost, if there are any.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 4.13 USD / 5.24 USD
    Cardmarket 3.32 EUR / 4.41 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.49 USD / 7.99 USD
    Manapool 4.67 USD / 6.63 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Biomancer's Familiar Creature — Mutant Normal - ~$12.04

    Heartstone Artifact Normal - ~$2.72

    Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy Legendary Creature — Human Druid Normal - ~$37.79

    Training Grounds Enchantment Normal - ~$5.36

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