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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Equivalent cards to Zirda, the Dawnwaker (red/white and related to activated ability reduction):
1. Training Grounds (blue): Reduces activated ability costs.
2. Biomancer's Familiar (green/blue): Reduces activated ability costs.
3. Heartstone (colorless): Reduces non-mana activated ability costs.
4. Heliod's Pilgrim (white): Not directly related—no close Boros equivalent that reduces ALL activated ability costs, but these are the closest.


Reason: No red/white card fully copies Zirda’s effect, but these mimic the activated ability reduction theme.

Results:

Biomancer's Familiar #158s Creature — Mutant

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Mutant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Biomancer’s Familiar.
  • An ability that has only one generic mana and some amount of other mana symbols in its activation cost will have its cost reduced by {1}.
  • Biomancer’s Familiar affects only abilities of creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of creature cards that work in other zones (such as cycling) won’t be reduced.
  • The last ability of Biomancer’s Familiar doesn’t add or remove any counters. It just lets the creature adapt despite already having +1/+1 counters on it.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 6.89 USD
    Cardmarket 2.69 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. : The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.

    Heartstone #STH-134 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • It will never reduce any colored mana portion of an activation cost.
  • It will not add a {1} to abilities with no generic mana in their activation cost.
  • The cost reduction can be applied to additional costs.
  • Can’t reduce Snow mana costs.
  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

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    Tcgplayer 1.53 USD
    Cardmarket 2.11 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 1.03 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Heliod's Pilgrim #20 Creature — Human Cleric

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Cleric
    • Languages:
    EDH Bracket Attr:
    Tutors
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Enchantment creatures with bestow from the Theros block aren’t Aura cards in your library. You can’t find one with Heliod’s Pilgrim.

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    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.31 USD
    Cardmarket 0.18 EUR / 0.4 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Aura card, reveal it, put it into your hand, thenshuffle

    Training Grounds #6 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Training Grounds won't affect a cost that isn't the cost to activate a creature's activated ability. For example, it won't affect Flameblast Dragon's {X}{R} cost, since that's a cost paid when a triggered ability resolves, and it won't affect a kicker cost, since that's an additional cost to cast a spell. Activated ability costs appear before a colon (:) in a card's rules text, or, in the case of some keywords, before a colon in reminder text.
  • If an activated ability of a creature you control costs no generic mana to activate (for example, if it costs {R}{R}, it costs {0}, or it costs only nonmana actions such as {T} or "Sacrifice a creature"), Training Grounds simply won't affect it. In particular, it won't increase the cost to include a mana payment of {1}.
  • Training Grounds affects only creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities that work in other zones (such as cycling or unearth) won't be reduced.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the amount you pay for a creature's activated ability cost that includes {X}. For example, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief has an activated ability that costs {X}{B}{B}. If you control Training Grounds and you activate the ability with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{B}{B}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana, as Crimson Hellkite's ability does.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the part of an activation cost represented by generic mana symbols down to nothing, as long as it still costs at least one mana. For example, if an activation cost is {2}{G}, you'd have to pay only {G}. If an activation cost is {2}, though, you'd still have to pay {1}.
  • Training Grounds takes the total cost to activate a creature's activated ability into account, not just the cost printed on it. For example, Urabrask has an activated ability that costs {R}, and Suppression Field says "Activated abilities cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities." Since activating Urabrask's activated ability would now cost {2}{R}, Training Grounds reduces that cost back to {R}.
  • Training Grounds won't affect the part of an activation cost represented by colored mana symbols or snow mana symbols. It also won't affect nonmana parts of an activation cost, if there are any.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 11.68 USD
    Cardkingdom 17.99 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Zirda, the Dawnwaker #233p Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elemental
  • Fox
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Companion

    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities are activated abilities (such as cycling) and will have colons in their reminder text.
  • Activating Zirda's last ability after a creature has blocked won't remove the blocking creature from combat or cause the creature it blocked to become unblocked.
  • An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate.
  • Before shuffling your deck to become your library, you may reveal one card from outside the game to be your companion if your starting deck meets the requirements of the companion ability. You can't reveal more than one. It remains revealed outside the game as the game begins.
  • Effects that reduce the generic mana cost of an activation cost can't reduce that cost's colored mana requirements. The activation cost is reduced by only {1} if doing so reduces that cost to one mana. For example, a cycling cost of {2} would become {1}, and one of {1}{R} would become {R}. The activation cost is unaffected if it already costs one or zero mana (such as the activation cost of Zirda's last ability).
  • If more than one player wishes to reveal a companion, the starting player does so first, and players proceed in turn order. Once a player has chosen not to reveal a companion, that player can't change their mind.
  • If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discard, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.
  • Paying {3} to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.
  • Permanent cards are artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker cards. Land cards with basic land types have intrinsic activated mana abilities associated with those types.
  • The companion ability has no effect if the card is in your starting deck and creates no restriction on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck. For example, Zirda may be in your starting deck even if your other permanent cards don't all have activated abilities.
  • The companion's other abilities apply only if the creature is on the battlefield. They have no effect while the companion is outside the game.
  • The requirements of the companion ability apply only to your starting deck. They do not apply to your sideboard.
  • You may have one companion in the Commander variant. Your deck, including your commander, must meet its companion requirement. Your companion is not one of your one hundred cards.
  • Your companion begins the game outside the game. In tournament play, this means your sideboard. In casual play, it's simply a card you own that's not in your starting deck.
  • If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discarded, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.
  • Paying {3} to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.
  • Wizards of the Coast has issued functional errata for the Companion mechanic. Instead of casting companions from outside the game: Once per game, any time you could cast a sorcery (during your main phase when the stack is empty), you can pay {3} to put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated ability. It happens immediately and can’t be responded to. It can’t be countered or stopped by cards like Phyrexian Revoker. For more information please see https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/june-1-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.95 USD / 2.97 USD
    Cardmarket 0.81 EUR / 2 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.81 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.) Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. , : Target creature can't block this turn.

    Biomancer's Familiar Creature — Mutant Normal - ~$4.79

    Heartstone Artifact Normal - ~$3.47

    Heliod's Pilgrim Creature — Human Cleric Normal - ~$1.91

    Training Grounds Enchantment Normal - ~$9.26

    Zirda, the Dawnwaker Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox Normal - ~$3.2

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