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"Find me cards equivalent to: Phalanx Formation"

Here are some white instants similar to Phalanx Formation (granting double strike or a strong combat keyword for one or more creatures):
1. Slaughter the Strong (not an instant but impacts creatures in a sweeping way).
2. Unbreakable Formation (instant; gives indestructible and can give a +1/+1 counter and vigilance).
3. Temur Battle Rage (not white, but grants double strike as an instant).
4. Ajani's Presence (white instant with strive; grants indestructible).

*Closest in color and effect: Ajani's Presence – also a white instant with strive, though it protects rather than gives double strike. There are few white instants that directly grant double strike to any number of creatures like Phalanx Formation.

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Ajani's Presence

Phalanx Formation

Slaughter the Strong

Temur Battle Rage

Unbreakable Formation

Ajani's Presence #2 Instant

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  • If a spell or ability allows you to cast a strive spell without paying its mana cost, you must pay the additional costs for any targets beyond the first.
  • If all of the spell's targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. If one or more of its targets are legal when it tries to resolve, the spell will resolve and affect only those legal targets. It will have no effect on any illegal targets.
  • If such a spell is copied, and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. The player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, the player can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • The mana cost and mana value of strive spells don't change no matter how many targets they have. Strive abilities affect only what you pay.
  • You choose how many targets each spell with a strive ability has and what those targets are as you cast it. It's legal to cast such a spell with no targets, although this is rarely a good idea. You can't choose the same target more than once for a single strive spell.

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    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.86 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.69 EUR 0.3 EUR
    Manapool / 0.41 USD 0.15 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first. Any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don'tdestroythem.)

    Phalanx Formation #21 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • If a spell or ability allows you to cast a strive spell without paying its mana cost, you must pay the additional costs for any targets beyond the first.
  • If all of the spell's targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. If one or more of its targets are legal when it tries to resolve, the spell will resolve and affect only those legal targets. It will have no effect on any illegal targets.
  • If such a spell is copied, and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. The player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, the player can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • The mana cost and mana value of strive spells don't change no matter how many targets they have. Strive abilities affect only what you pay.
  • You choose how many targets each spell with a strive ability has and what those targets are as you cast it. It's legal to cast such a spell with no targets, although this is rarely a good idea. You can't choose the same target more than once for a single strive spell.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool / 0.39 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.28 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.07 USD / 0.4 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 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

    Text

    Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first. Any number of target creatures each gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

    Slaughter the Strong #131 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • As Slaughter the Strong resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses which creatures will be spared, then each other player in turn order does the same knowing the choices made before them. Then all the creatures not chosen are sacrificed simultaneously.
  • If a creature's power is somehow less than 0, it subtracts from the total power of the other creatures its controller chooses. This can cause creatures with power 5 or greater to survive.
  • Slaughter the Strong has each player choose any number of creatures and then checks that the total power of creatures each player chose this way is 4 or less. For example, you could save two 2/2 creatures, or a 1/1 and a 3/3 creature, but not all four of those creatures.

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    Cardkingdom 0.39 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD
    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 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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    Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

    Temur Battle Rage #351 Instant

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    Rarity: Special
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Temur Battle Rage checks whether you control a creature with power 4 or greater as it resolves. If you do, the target creature has trample until end of turn even if you no longer control a creature with power 4 or greater later in the turn.
  • If an attacking creature with double strike and trample destroys all of its blocking creatures with first-strike combat damage, all of its normal combat damage is assigned to the player, planeswalker, or battle that creature's attacking.

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    Cardmarket / 5.34 EUR 0.72 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 18.78 USD 1.88 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD / 15.99 USD
    Manapool 1.02 USD / 15.98 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

    Unbreakable Formation #7052 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Instant
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  • Unbreakable Formation affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't gain indestructible or vigilance and they won't get a +1/+1 counter.
  • Addendum abilities of instant spells apply while the spell is resolving, not immediately after casting it. If the spell is countered, you don't get the addendum bonus.
  • If an effect copies a spell with an addendum ability while it's on the stack, the copy wasn't cast at all, so you won't get the addendum bonus.

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    Tcgplayer 1.38 USD / 1.93 USD
    Cardkingdom / 2.79 USD 1.79 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.82 EUR 2.51 EUR
    Manapool / 1.8 USD 1.43 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1counteron each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.