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"Find me cards equivalent to: Cerebral Vortex"

Possible equivalent cards to Cerebral Vortex that are also instants, in red and blue, and involve card draw and/or damage include:
1. Invoke the Firemind (Instant, Blue/Red) — Draw cards or deal damage, but not both at once.
2. Expansion // Explosion (Blue/Red, split card) — Explosion side is close, dealing X damage and drawing X cards, but not based on number drawn.
3. Thrill of Possibility (Red, Instant) — Card draw, but no damage.
4. Electrolyze (Red/Blue, Instant) — Deals 2 damage divided and draws a card, but doesn’t scale with number of cards drawn.

Closest are Invoke the Firemind, Explosion, and Electrolyze—all Izzet (U/R) instants with draw-and-damage effects, but none match Cerebral Vortex’s unique scaling.

Found Cards

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Cerebral Vortex

Electrolyze

Explosion

Invoke the Firemind

Thrill of Possibility

Cerebral Vortex #107 Instant

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Rarity: Rare
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    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer / 9.82 USD 1.12 USD
    Cardkingdom / 12.99 USD 1.29 USD
    Manapool / 4.68 USD 0.67 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.78 EUR 0.46 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target player draws two cards, then Cerebral Vortex deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards they've drawn this turn.

    Electrolyze #123 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • If Electrolyze targets two creatures and one becomes an illegal target, the remaining target is dealt 1 damage, not 2. You'll still draw a card.
  • If all chosen targets are illegal as Electrolyze tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No damage will be dealt and you won't draw a card.
  • You divide the damage as you cast Electrolyze, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. In other words, as you cast Electrolyze, you choose whether to have it deal 2 damage to a single target, or deal 1 damage to each of two targets.

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    Cardkingdom 2.29 USD 2.49 USD 5.99 USD
    Cardmarket 3.29 EUR / 6.14 EUR
    Tcgplayer 2.93 USD 1.82 USD 3.34 USD
    Manapool 3.86 USD 3.16 USD 3.02 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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    Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. Draw a card.

    Expansion (Expansion // Explosion) #224p Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
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  • A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
  • Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
  • Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
  • If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
  • If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
  • Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
  • To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
  • Any choices made as a spell resolves won't have been made yet once it's copied. Any such choices will be made separately as the copy resolves.
  • Expansion can copy any instant or sorcery spell with an appropriate mana value, not just one with targets.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the mana value of that spell.
  • If one of Explosion's two targets becomes illegal, the other is affected as appropriate.
  • If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can't be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
  • If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Banefire does), the copy will have the same value of X.
  • If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.
  • If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does.
  • The controller of a copy can't choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.
  • The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
  • The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).

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    Cardmarket 0.3 EUR / 1.11 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 2.49 USD 1.99 USD
    Manapool 0.66 USD / 1.04 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.58 USD / 0.79 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Copy target instant or sorcery spell with mana value 4 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

    Explosion (Expansion // Explosion) #224p Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
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  • Instant
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    Split
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    Rules

  • A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
  • Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
  • Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
  • If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
  • If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
  • Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
  • To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
  • Any choices made as a spell resolves won't have been made yet once it's copied. Any such choices will be made separately as the copy resolves.
  • Expansion can copy any instant or sorcery spell with an appropriate mana value, not just one with targets.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the mana value of that spell.
  • If one of Explosion's two targets becomes illegal, the other is affected as appropriate.
  • If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can't be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
  • If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Banefire does), the copy will have the same value of X.
  • If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.
  • If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does.
  • The controller of a copy can't choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.
  • The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
  • The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.3 EUR / 1.11 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.79 USD 0.58 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Explosion deals X damage to any target. Target player draws X cards.

    Invoke the Firemind #31 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • As you cast Invoke the Firemind, first you choose the mode (draw cards or deal damage), then you choose the value of X. You then choose a target, but only if you chose the second mode.

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    Cardmarket 0.31 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.32 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.69 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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    Choose one — • Draw X cards. • Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to any target.

    Thrill of Possibility #IFIYW-8 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2 v3
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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • You must discard exactly one card to cast Thrill of Possibility; you can't cast it without discarding a card, and you can't discard additional cards.

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    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.3 USD
    Cardmarket 0.81 EUR
    Manapool 0.35 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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    As an additional cost to cast this spell,discarda card. Draw two cards.