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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: The Temporal Anchor

Equivalent cards to The Temporal Anchor (blue artifact, card draw/selection engine):

  • Tamiyo's Journal (artifact, card draw via clue tokens)
  • Memory Jar (artifact, card draw/reset)
  • Mirage Mirror (flexible artifact, not card draw, but similar versatility)
  • Mystic Forge (artifact, blue identity, allows casting from library top)
  • Future Sight (enchantment, blue, play with top card revealed/castable)


Reason: These cards provide ongoing card advantage or manipulation similar to The Temporal Anchor and are blue or colorless.

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Future Sight #71 Enchantment

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 5
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  • Enchantment
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    Rules

  • If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability (most likely because that top card is the card you're playing), the new top card won't be revealed until you finish doing so.
  • If the top card of your library is a land, you may play that land only if you have any available land plays.
  • The top card of your library isn't in your hand, so you can't suspend it, cycle it, or activate any of its abilities.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the top card of your library and pay its costs. If the card has alternative or additional costs, you may pay those. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

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

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    Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

    Memory Jar #276 Artifact

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
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  • You can’t look at the cards you exiled until they return to your hand.

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

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    ,Sacrificethis artifact: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

    Mirage Mirror #2030 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • If Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of a legendary permanent you control, you'll put one of them into your graveyard.
  • If Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of an Aura, it's put into its owner's graveyard unless it's somehow attached to an appropriate object or player already. If it becomes a copy of an Equipment and is attached to a creature, it'll become unattached when it becomes a non-Equipment artifact again.
  • If Mirage Mirror becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can't attack with it or use any of its {T} abilities (if it gains any) unless it has haste.
  • If Mirage Mirror copies a permanent that's copying something else, it will become whatever the target is copying.
  • If an effect begins to apply to Mirage Mirror before it becomes a copy of another permanent, that effect will continue to apply. For example, if Mirage Mirror is activated twice in response to itself targeting first Rampaging Hippo then Frilled Sandwalla, the ability it has while it's a copy of Frilled Sandwalla can be activated and its effect will continue to apply while Mirage Mirror is a copy of Rampaging Hippo.
  • If you activate Mirage Mirror's ability multiple times in a turn in response to itself, then each time one of those abilities resolves, it will overwrite whatever Mirage Mirror is copying. Mirage Mirror will wind up as a copy of the permanent targeted by the last ability to resolve. When the turn ends, all instances of the ability will wear off at the same time.
  • Mirage Mirror copies the printed values of the target permanent, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won't copy counters on that permanent or effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Notably, it won't copy effects that made the target permanent become a creature.
  • Once Mirage Mirror's ability resolves, it no longer has that ability.

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    Tcgplayer 4.76 USD

    Legalities

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

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    : This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

    Mystic Forge #1012 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Because you never "cast" a land card, Mystic Forge doesn't allow you to play an artifact land from the top of your library.
  • If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can't look at the next one until you're done paying for that spell.
  • If the top card of your library has a morph ability, you can cast it face down from the top of your library, even if it's normally not a colorless card.
  • Mystic Forge lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spells you cast from your library.
  • You still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.

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    Tcgplayer 4.6 USD

    Legalities

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

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    You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. , Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

    Tamiyo's Journal #265†b Legendary Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
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    Tutors
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    Clue

    Abilities/Keywords

    Investigate

    Rules

  • Clue is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some cards with other permanent types, it's never a creature type, a land type, or anything but an artifact type.
  • If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Wrench to pay for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's activated ability.
  • You can't sacrifice a Clue to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Clue token to activate its own ability and also to activate Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's ability.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 5 USD
    Cardkingdom 3.99 USD

    Legalities

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

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    At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ",Sacrificethis token: Draw a card.") ,Sacrificethree Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, thenshuffle

    The Temporal Anchor #82p Legendary Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • You must follow all normal timing rules for a card you play using The Temporal Anchor's last ability and, if it's a spell, you must pay its costs to cast it.

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    Tcgplayer 0.22 USD / 0.4 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.49 USD

    Legalities

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

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    At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2. Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

    Future Sight Enchantment Normal

    Memory Jar Artifact Normal

    Mirage Mirror Artifact Normal - ~$4.76

    Mystic Forge Artifact Normal - ~$4.6

    Tamiyo's Journal Legendary Artifact Normal - ~$4.5

    The Temporal Anchor Legendary Artifact Normal - ~$0.4

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