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"Find me cards equivalent to: Rules Lawyer"

Equivalent white cards to Rules Lawyer (cards that interact with rules, exceptions, or state-based effects):
1. Platinum Angel – You can’t lose the game and your opponents can’t win.

  • Both change basic game rules.
    2. Sigarda, Host of Herons – Spells and abilities your opponents control can’t cause you to sacrifice permanents.
  • Alters rules for sacrificing.


Reason: These cards interact with, or bypass, state-based effects or game rules, similar to Rules Lawyer’s ability.

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Platinum Angel

Rules Lawyer

Sigarda, Host of Herons

Platinum Angel #1 Artifact Creature — Angel

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 7
Power/Toughness: 4/4
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  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Angel
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Effects that say the game is a draw, such as the _Legends_(TM) card Divine Intervention, are not affected by Platinum Angel. They'll still work.
  • You can concede a game while Platinum Angel on the battlefield. A concession causes you to leave the game, which then causes you to lose the game (Once you concede, you no longer control a Platinum Angel, so its ability can't prevent you from losing the game).
  • If you control Platinum Angel in a Two-Headed Giant game, your team can't lose the game and the opposing team can't win the game.
  • No game effect can cause you to lose the game or cause any opponent to win the game while you control Platinum Angel. It doesn't matter whether you have 0 or less life, you're forced to draw a card while your library is empty, you have ten or more poison counters, you're dealt combat damage by Phage the Untouchable, your opponent has Mortal Combat with twenty or more creature cards in their graveyard, or so on. You keep playing.
  • Other circumstances can still cause you to lose the game, however. You will lose a game if you concede, if you're penalized with a Game Loss or a Match Loss during a sanctioned tournament due to a DCI rules infraction, or if your _Magic Online_(R) game clock runs out of time.

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    Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

    Rules Lawyer #7 Artifact Creature — Cyborg Advisor

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Cyborg
  • Advisor
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    Layout:
    Normal

    Rules

  • +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on permanents you control no longer annihilate each other. (704.5q)
  • A creature with toughness 0 or less can still attack and block. If it blocks an attacking creature with trample, treat its toughness as 0 when determining how to assign combat damage.
  • Any ability that says a player wins or loses the game still works.
  • Auras you control stay on the battlefield if they're attached to an illegal permanent or if they aren't attached to a permanent (but should be). They may not do much because there probably won't be an "enchanted [whatever]," but they'll stay on the battlefield! (704.5m) Similarly, thanks to an unlisted silver-bordered state-based action no longer applying, your creatures with augment can now survive even if not attached to a host. If this happens, its power and toughness are 0/0. (704.5m)
  • Battles you control with no defense counters aren't put into their owners' graveyards. Given the intrinsic ability of Sieges (310.11b), this is unlikely to come up often. (704.5v)
  • Battles you control with no player in the game designated as their protector do not get a new protector. In this state, they'll be impossible to attack. Even Rules Lawyer has weaknesses. (704.5w)
  • Because Rules Lawyer applies only to you and other permanents you control, tokens that leave the battlefield will continue to cease to exist. This is also true for copies of cards that might exist off the battlefield.
  • Creatures can have as many Roles you control as you want attached to them. The casting director's job has never been easier. (704.5y)
  • Creatures you control shrug off opposing creatures with deathtouch. (704.5h)
  • Creatures you control that have been dealt lethal damage remain on the battlefield. (704.5g)
  • Creatures you control with toughness of 0 or less remain on the battlefield. (704.5f)
  • Equipment and Fortifications you control can stay attached to an illegal permanent. (704.5n)
  • Good news for Rasputin Dreamweaver fans: you can ignore abilities of permanents you control that say it can't have more than a certain number of a certain kind of counter. (704.5r)
  • If you control a Siege and you're also its protector, you'll continue to be its protector. Good luck attacking it. (704.5x)
  • If you somehow control a battle or creature that's attached to another permanent, that battle or creature can stay attached. If it's a creature, it can attack and block, even if another creature is carrying it. Similarly, if you control a permanent that isn't an Aura, an Equipment, or a Fortification, it can stay attached to whatever you manage to get it attached to. Strange. (704.5p)
  • If you try to draw from an empty library, nothing happens. (704.5b)
  • In Commander, you're immune to the "commander damage rule" that says you lose if a single commander deals 21 or more combat damage to you. (704.6d)
  • Planeswalkers with no loyalty counters and battles with no defense counters can still be attacked. Hopefully your opponents think this sounds fun and cool.
  • Rules Lawyer's ability doesn't apply to itself. It can die for any number of reasons. If you're at 0 or less life and you lose control of Rules Lawyer, you'll immediately lose the game.
  • Sagas you control aren't sacrificed when they have more lore counters than chapter abilities, even if their final chapter ability isn't on the stack. Have fun stacking up lore counters! (704.5s)
  • While you control Rules Lawyer, the following is true, with the exception of not affecting Rules Lawyer itself (Comprehensive Rules references as of this writing in parentheses; check out all of 704.5 and 704.6 for anything that's been added, changed, or moved since then):
  • You can control as many legendary permanents (including planeswalkers) with the same name as you want. It's like your own personal Mirror Gallery! (704.5j)
  • You can control multiple permanents with the supertype world. So, that opens up some deck ideas, I'd imagine. (704.5k)
  • You could hit up an all-you-can-eat poison counter buffet no problem. (704.5c)
  • You don't lose the game if you're at or below 0 life. (704.5a)
  • You won't choose sector designations for creatures that don't already have them if a permanent with space sculptor is on the battlefield. If this comes up, it'll be a true galaxy brain moment. (704.5u)
  • Your Two-Headed Giant team can no longer lose because you have 0 or less life or fifteen or more poison counters. (704.6as and 704.6b)
  • Your planeswalkers remain on the battlefield even if they have no loyalty counters. (704.5i)

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    State-based actions don't apply to you or other permanents you control. (You don't lose the game due to having 0 or less life or drawing from an empty library. Your creatures aren't destroyed due to damage or deathtouch and aren't put into a graveyard due to having 0 or less toughness. Your planeswalkers aren't put into a graveyard if they have 0 loyalty. You don't put a legendary permanent into a graveyard if you control two with the same name. Counters aren't removed from your permanents due to game rules. Permanents you control attached or combined illegally remain on the battlefield. For complete rules and regulations, see rule 704.)

    Sigarda, Host of Herons #210 Legendary Creature — Angel

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Angel
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Hexproof

    Rules

  • As a spell or ability an opponent controls resolves, if it would force you to sacrifice a permanent, you just don't. That part of the effect does nothing. If that spell or ability gives you the option to sacrifice a permanent (as Desecration Demon does), you can't take that option.
  • If a spell or ability an opponent controls states that something happens unless you sacrifice a permanent (as Mogis, God of Slaughter does), you can't choose to sacrifice a permanent. On the other hand, if a spell or ability an opponent controls instructs you to sacrifice a permanent unless you perform an action (as Killing Wave does), you can choose whether or not to perform the action. If you don't perform the action, nothing happens, since you can't sacrifice any permanents.
  • Sigarda's ability affects only sacrifices. It won't stop a creature from dying due to lethal damage or having 0 toughness, and it won't stop a permanent from being put into its owner's graveyard due to the "legend rule." None of these are sacrifices; they're the result of game rules.

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    Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you tosacrificepermanents.