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"Find me cards equivalent to: Lifeline"

Lifeline is unique, but some similar colorless artifact cards are:

  • Mimic Vat (can exile creatures that die and create tokens)
  • Salvaging Station (returns small artifacts, not creatures)
  • Tawnos's Coffin (temporarily exiles and returns a creature)
  • Soul Foundry (creates tokens from exiled creature cards)


Reason: No artifact exactly duplicates Lifeline's effect, but these offer related recursion or return abilities.

Found Cards

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Lifeline

Mimic Vat

Salvaging Station

Soul Foundry

Tawnos's Coffin

Lifeline #299 Artifact

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  • If multiple creatures are coming back, they come back one at a time, not all at once. This is because Lifeline triggered once for each creature and set up a separate “at end of turn” effect for each.
  • It fails to bring the creature back if the creature is not still in the graveyard at the end of turn.
  • It works for all players and has errata to remove the “your graveyard” text.
  • The creature comes back even if Lifeline leaves the battlefield after triggering, but before it resolves.
  • If more than one creature is on the battlefield and all the creatures on the battlefield go to the graveyard at once, then none of them are returned at end of turn. This is because Lifeline’s ability has an intervening-if clause, which means that there must be at least one creature on the battlefield at the time the ability resolves.

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    Cardmarket 15.4 EUR
    Tcgplayer 46.56 USD
    Cardkingdom 47.99 USD
    Manapool 30.92 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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    Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

    Mimic Vat #219 Artifact

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    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Any "enters" abilities of the exiled card will trigger when the token is put onto the battlefield. Any "as [this permanent] enters" or "[this permanent] enters with" abilities of the exiled card will also work.
  • Exiling the card as the first ability resolves is optional. If you choose not to exile it, or you can't exile it because the card has somehow left the graveyard before the ability resolves, the ability simply doesn't do anything as it resolves. Any card currently exiled by Mimic Vat remains exiled.
  • If Mimic Vat's second ability is activated during a turn's end step, the token will be exiled at the beginning of the following turn's end step.
  • If multiple nontoken creatures are put into their owners' graveyards from the battlefield at the same time, the imprint ability will trigger that many times. You put the triggered abilities on the stack in any order, so you'll determine in which order they resolve. However, since exiling those cards is optional, and choosing to exile a card this way causes the previously exiled cards to return to their owners' graveyards, the order generally doesn't matter: You'll wind up with at most one of those cards exiled, and the rest will be in the appropriate graveyards.
  • If the exiled card has {X} in its mana cost (such as Protean Hydra), X is considered to be 0.
  • If the token is a copy of a noncreature card, it will still have haste, though that won't matter unless that token somehow becomes a creature.
  • If the token isn't exiled when the delayed triggered ability resolves (due to Stifle, perhaps), it remains on the battlefield indefinitely. It continues to have haste.
  • The imprint ability will trigger whenever a nontoken creature is put into any graveyard from the battlefield, not just your graveyard.
  • The token created by the second ability will be a copy of whatever card is exiled with Mimic Vat at the time the ability resolves. This might not be the same card that was exiled with Mimic Vat at the time the ability was activated. It also might not be a creature card.
  • The token is exiled at the beginning of the next end step regardless of who controls it at that time, whether the exiled card is still exiled at that time, or whether Mimic Vat is still on the battlefield at that time.
  • You may activate the second ability even if no card has been exiled with Mimic Vat. If no card has been exiled with Mimic Vat by the time the ability resolves, no token will be created.
  • You may exile a noncreature card with Mimic Vat's first ability. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mimic Vat's first ability triggers and you may exile that card.
  • If a melded permanent dies and triggers Mimic Vat's triggered ability, both of its component cards are exiled. As Mimic Vat's second ability resolves, its controller chooses one of those cards to make a token copy of.
  • If the creature that dies is an instant or sorcery card that's been manifested, Mimic Vat may have a nonpermanent card exiled. You can't create a token that's a copy of a nonpermanent card. No token is created in this case.

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    Cardmarket 0.46 EUR
    Manapool 0.34 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.55 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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    Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. , : Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

    Salvaging Station #148 Artifact

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    Converted Cost: 6
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    Tcgplayer 1.81 USD / 14.25 USD
    Cardkingdom 2.49 USD
    Manapool 1.04 USD / 10.42 USD
    Cardmarket 0.52 EUR / 5.16 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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    : Return target noncreature artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a creature dies, you may untap this artifact.

    Soul Foundry #246 Artifact

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    Converted Cost: 4
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  • You do not get a chance to pay any optional costs, such as Kicker, on the imprinted card.
  • Most creature tokens have no mana cost and a mana value of 0, but a creature token put onto the battlefield by Soul Foundry has the same mana cost and mana value as the card it copies.
  • Soul Foundry puts a token copy of the imprinted card onto the battlefield. The token is put onto the battlefield, not cast.
  • The token is an exact copy in every way, except that it's a token, not a card.

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    Cardkingdom 9.99 USD
    Manapool / 4.95 USD 0.46 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.61 USD / 7.24 USD
    Cardmarket 0.43 EUR / 2.95 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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    Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a creature card from your hand. , : Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

    Tawnos's Coffin #68 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • The creature returns to the battlefield tapped. It does not return to the battlefield and then tap afterwards.
  • If Tawnos’s Coffin leaves the battlefield before its ability has resolved, it will exile the targeted creature forever, since its delayed triggered ability will never trigger.
  • If the exiled card is returned to the battlefield and, for some reason, it now can’t be enchanted by an Aura that was also exiled by Tawnos’s Coffin, that Aura will remain exiled.
  • If the targeted creature is a token, it will cease to exist after being exiled. Any Auras that were attached to it will remain exiled forever.
  • Because the new wording doesn’t use phasing, the exiled card will suffer from summoning sickness upon its return to the battlefield.
  • The effect doesn’t care what types the card has after it is exiled, only that it have been a creature while on the battlefield.

    • Prices

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    Cardmarket 120.05 EUR
    Cardkingdom 119.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 122.55 USD
    Manapool 101.58 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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    You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. , : Exile target creature and all Auras attached to it. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature. When this artifact leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, return that exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it. If you do, return the other exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control attached to that permanent.