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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Damping Matrix

Equivalent cards to Damping Matrix (white or colorless, artifact-based hate):
1. Grafdigger's Cage – Prevents graveyard/library creature spells and graveyard entry.
2. Pithing Needle – Shuts down activated abilities of a chosen card.
3. Stony Silence (white) – Disables all artifact activated abilities.
4. Phyrexian Revoker – Creature that stops activated abilities.


Reason: All restrict or stop artifact/creature abilities as Damping Matrix does.

Results:

Damping Matrix #218 Artifact

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
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    Rules

  • A mana ability is an ability that produces mana, not an ability that costs mana.
  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities, such as equip, are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
  • Damping Matrix’s ability affects only artifacts and creatures on the battlefield. Activated abilities that work in other zones (such as bloodrush or unearth) can still be activated. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.66 USD / 4.36 USD
    Cardmarket 0.44 EUR / 4.22 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.8 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

    Grafdigger's Cage #324 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Rules

  • If an effect exiles a card from a library and allows a player to cast it, that player may do so. The spell is cast from exile, not a library.
  • Look at the card as it exists in your graveyard to determine whether it can enter the battlefield. For example, Sculpting Steel can be put onto the battlefield as a copy of a creature, but Phyrexian Metamorph can't be put onto the battlefield, even if it would copy a noncreature artifact.
  • Manifesting a card from a graveyard or library is an impossible action while Grafdigger's Cage is on the battlefield.
  • Players can still play lands from graveyards or libraries if an effect allows them to do so.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 17.72 USD / 19.49 USD
    Cardmarket 15.01 EUR / 13.71 EUR
    Cardkingdom 19.99 USD / 24.99 USD
    Cardsphere 14.22 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

    Phyrexian Revoker #40 Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
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  • Artifact
  • Creature
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  • Phyrexian
  • Horror
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    Rules

  • Activated abilities are written in the form "Cost: Effect." Some keywords are activated abilities (such as equip) and will have colons in their reminder texts. Static and triggered abilities of sources with the chosen name are unaffected.
  • Phyrexian Revoker's ability affects sources with the chosen name no matter what zone they are in. For example, a cycling ability of a card with the chosen name can't be activated from hand.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD / 0.43 USD
    Cardmarket 0.41 EUR / 1.13 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.21 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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 this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

    Pithing Needle #44 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • If you name a card that has both a mana ability and another activated ability, the mana ability can be activated but the other ability can't be activated.
  • Pithing Needle affects cards regardless of what zone they're in. This includes cards in hand, cards in the graveyard, and exiled cards. For example, a player can't cycle Eternal Dragon or return an Eternal Dragon from their graveyard to hand if Pithing Needle naming Eternal Dragon is on the battlefield.
  • You can name any card, even if that card doesn't normally have an activated ability. You can't name a token unless that token has the same name as a card.
  • Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
  • Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.05 USD
    Cardmarket 3.64 EUR / 16.11 EUR
    Cardkingdom 4.99 USD
    Cardsphere 2.59 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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 this artifact enters, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

    Stony Silence #21 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Enchantment
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    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities, such as equip, are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
  • No abilities of artifacts can be activated, including mana abilities.
  • Stony Silence's ability affects only artifacts on the battlefield. Activated abilities that work in other zones (such as cycling) can still be activated. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.81 USD
    Cardmarket 3.42 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.72 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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 artifacts can't be activated.

    Damping Matrix Artifact Normal - ~$3.36

    Grafdigger's Cage Artifact Normal - ~$14.18

    Phyrexian Revoker Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror Normal - ~$2.17

    Pithing Needle Artifact Normal - ~$5.88

    Stony Silence Enchantment Normal - ~$3.58

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