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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Seize the Initiative

Equivalent cards to Seize the Initiative (White, instant, grants first strike & +1/+1 counter):

  • Defiant Strike (White, instant, gives +1/+0 and draws a card)
  • Emerge Unscathed (White, instant, grants protection from a color)
  • Gods Willing (White, instant, grants protection & scry 1)
  • Otherworldly Journey (White, instant, blink & +1/+1 counter)


Reason: All are white instants granting a creature combat or protection boost. None are exactly the same, but these are close in effect or function.

Results:

Defiant Strike #66 Instant

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 1
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Defiant Strike tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. You won't draw a card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.38 USD 0.45 USD 0.47 USD
    Cardmarket 0.41 EUR / 0.82 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD 0.49 USD 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.26 USD 0.3 USD 0.3 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 gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card.

    Emerge Unscathed #20 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Rebound

    Rules

  • At the beginning of your upkeep, all delayed triggered abilities created by rebound effects trigger. You may handle them in any order. If you want to cast a card this way, you do so as part of the resolution of its delayed triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type (if it’s a sorcery) are ignored. Other restrictions are not (such as the one from Rule of Law).
  • If a replacement effect would cause a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand to be put somewhere else instead of your graveyard (such as Leyline of the Void might), you choose whether to apply the rebound effect or the other effect as the spell resolves.
  • If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand doesn’t resolve for any reason (due being countered by a spell like Cancel, or because all of its targets are illegal), rebound has no effect. The spell is simply put into your graveyard. You won’t get to cast it again next turn.
  • If you are unable to cast a card from exile this way, or you choose not to, nothing happens when the delayed triggered ability resolves. The card remains exiled for the rest of the game, and you won’t get another chance to cast the card. The same is true if the ability is countered (due to Stifle, perhaps).
  • If you cast a card from exile this way, it will go to your graveyard when it resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered. It won’t go back to exile.
  • If you cast a spell with rebound from anywhere other than your hand (such as from your graveyard due to Sins of the Past, from your library due to cascade, or from your opponent’s hand due to Sen Triplets), rebound won’t have any effect. If you do cast it from your hand, rebound will work regardless of whether you paid its mana cost (for example, if you cast it from your hand due to Maelstrom Archangel).
  • If you cast a spell with rebound from your hand and it resolves, it isn’t put into your graveyard. Rather, it’s exiled directly from the stack. Effects that care about cards being put into your graveyard won’t do anything.
  • Rebound will have no effect on copies of spells because you don’t cast them from your hand.
  • You choose the color as Emerge Unscathed resolves. Once you choose a color, it’s too late for players to respond.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.31 USD / 1.92 USD
    Cardmarket 0.39 EUR / 2.47 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD
    Manapool 0.45 USD / 2.04 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 you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

    Gods Willing #7 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability's targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't scry.
  • When you scry, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards on the bottom of your library, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them on the bottom.
  • You choose how to order cards returned to your library after scrying no matter where you put them.
  • You choose the color as Gods Willing resolves. Once the color is chosen, it's too late for players to respond.
  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, that means you'll scry last. For others, that means you'll scry and then perform other actions.
  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Gods Willing tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You won't scry 1. If the target creature becomes an illegal target while Gods Willing is resolving (most likely because you gave it protection from white), you do scry 1.
  • You can't choose "artifact" or "colorless" as Gods Willing asks you to choose a color because those are not colors.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.35 USD 0.51 USD 1.53 USD
    Cardmarket 0.48 EUR / 1.18 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD 1.99 USD 0.59 USD
    Manapool 0.33 USD 0.77 USD 1.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.) Scry 1.

    Otherworldly Journey #16 Instant — Arcane

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
  • Arcane
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • The creature comes back onto the battlefield as a new creature, with one +1/+1 counter on it (plus any other counters that it would normally enter with).
  • Any Aura attached to the creature is put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action. Equipment attached to the creature become unattached but remain on the battlefield.
  • If Otherworldly Journey is cast during an end step, the creature won't return until the beginning of the next end step.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.34 USD
    Cardmarket 0.1 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.39 USD
    Manapool 0.26 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. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1counteron it.

    Seize the Initiative #20 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • A creature that gains first strike after other creatures with first strike or double strike deal combat damage in the first combat damage step will still deal damage in the second combat damage step.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.06 USD / 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.09 EUR / 0.21 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.26 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 gets +1/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.

    Defiant Strike Instant Normal - ~$0.43

    Emerge Unscathed Instant Normal - ~$1.3

    Gods Willing Instant Normal - ~$0.89

    Otherworldly Journey Instant — Arcane Normal - ~$0.27

    Seize the Initiative Instant Normal - ~$0.25

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