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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Hardlight Containment

Equivalent cards to Hardlight Containment (a blue instant that exiles a creature until its controller pays 4) include:

  • Reality Shift — exiles a creature, replaces it with a Manifest (Blue, Instant).
  • Ravenform — exiles an artifact or creature, replaces it with a 1/1 Bird (Blue, Sorcery).
  • Rescind — bounces a permanent (Blue, Instant, less permanent answer).


Reason:
These blue cards provide exile or removal effects for creatures, although none have the exact tax mechanic. Blue rarely gets exile-based removal with a tax, but these are the closest in color and functionality.

Results:

Hardlight Containment #20p Enchantment — Aura

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 1
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  • Enchantment
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  • Aura
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Enchant

    Rules

  • No entries
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.98 USD / 0.71 USD
    Cardmarket 0.03 EUR / 0.48 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.79 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

    Enchant artifact you control When this Aura enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted permanent has ward .

    Ravenform #72 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Foretell

    Rules

  • Because exiling a card with foretell from your hand is a special action, you can do so any time you have priority during your turn, including in response to spells and abilities. Once you announce you're taking the action, no other player can respond by trying to remove the card from your hand.
  • Casting a foretold card from exile follows the timing rules for that card. If you foretell an instant card, you can cast it as soon as the next player's turn. In most cases, if you foretell a card that isn't an instant (or doesn't have flash), you'll have to wait until your next turn to cast it.
  • If the target artifact or creature is an illegal target as Ravenform tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No player will create a Bird creature token.
  • If you're casting a foretold card from exile for its foretell cost, you can't choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD / 0.74 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR / 0.35 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 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

    Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. Foretell (During your turn, you may pay and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

    Reality Shift #46 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Instant
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    Manifest

    Rules

  • A permanent that turns face up or face down changes characteristics but is otherwise the same permanent. Spells and abilities that were targeting that permanent, as well as Auras and Equipment that were attached to the permanent, aren't affected.
  • Any time you have priority, you may turn a manifested creature face up by revealing that it's a creature card (ignoring any copy effects or type-changing effects that might be applying to it) and paying its mana cost. This is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • At any time, you can look at a face-down permanent you control. You can't look at face-down permanents you don't control unless an effect allows you to or instructs you to.
  • Because face-down creatures don't have names, they can't have the same name as any other creature, even another face-down creature.
  • Because the permanent is on the battlefield both before and after it's turned face up, turning a permanent face up doesn't cause any enters-the-battlefield abilities to trigger.
  • If a double-faced card is manifested, it will be put onto the battlefield face down. While face down, it can't transform. If the front face of the card is a creature card, you can turn it face up by paying its mana cost. If you do, its front face will be up.
  • If a face-down permanent you control leaves the battlefield, you must reveal it. You must also reveal all face-down spells and permanents you control if you leave the game or if the game ends.
  • If a manifested creature would have morph if it were face up, you may also turn it face up by paying its morph cost.
  • The face-down permanent is a 2/2 creature with no name, mana cost, creature types, or abilities. It's colorless and has a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the permanent can still grant or change any of these characteristics.
  • There are no cards in the Fate Reforged set that would turn a face-down instant or sorcery card on the battlefield face up, but some older cards can try to do this. If something tries to turn a face-down instant or sorcery card on the battlefield face up, reveal that card to show all players it's an instant or sorcery card. The permanent remains on the battlefield face down. Abilities that trigger when a permanent turns face up won't trigger, because even though you revealed the card, it never turned face up.
  • Turning a permanent face up or face down doesn't change whether that permanent is tapped or untapped.
  • Unlike a face-down creature that was cast using the morph ability, a manifested creature may still be turned face up after it loses its abilities if it's a creature card.
  • You must ensure that your face-down spells and permanents can easily be differentiated from each other. You're not allowed to mix up the cards that represent them on the battlefield in order to confuse other players. The order they entered the battlefield should remain clear. Common methods for indicating this include using markers or dice, or simply placing them in order on the battlefield. You must also track how each became face down (manifested, cast face down using the morph ability, and so on).
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 2.37 USD
    Cardmarket 1.41 EUR / 10.5 EUR
    Cardsphere 2.32 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

    Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

    Rescind #92 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cycling

    Rules

  • Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.17 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 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

    Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Cycling (,Discardthis card: Draw a card.)

    Hardlight Containment Enchantment — Aura Normal - ~$2.24

    Ravenform Sorcery Normal - ~$1.94

    Reality Shift Instant Normal - ~$4.75

    Rescind Instant Normal - ~$2.5

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