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"Find me cards equivalent to: Abstruse Appropriation"

Equivalent cards (colorless instants that exile and allow casting the exiled card) to Abstruse Appropriation are extremely rare. Here are some similar options, but none are strictly equivalent:

  • Praetor's Grasp (black, not instant and not colorless; lets you cast a card from opponent's deck)
  • Gonti, Lord of Luxury (black, not instant and not colorless; lets you cast an exiled card)
  • Draining Whelk (blue, not colorless; exile and cast effect)
  • Siphon Insight (blue/black, instant; exile and cast a card)

Closest colorless effect:

  • Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger (colorless, exile permanent, but no cast it effect)
  • Duplicant (colorless, exiles creature; no cast effect)

No card matches all of “Abstruse Appropriation’s” unique conditions:

  • colorless instant
  • exiles any nonland
  • lets you cast the exiled card


Reason:
Giving both exile + cast ability on any nonland in a colorless instant is unique to Abstruse Appropriation. No strict equivalents exist in colorless instants.

Found Cards

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Abstruse Appropriation

Draining Whelk

Duplicant

Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Praetor's Grasp

Siphon Insight

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Abstruse Appropriation #342 Instant

Variations: v1 v2
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Info

Color:
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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Devoid

    Rules

  • A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
  • Abstruse Appropriation doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • Devoid doesn't affect the color identity of the card for the purposes of the Commander variant. For example, while Abstruse Appropriation is colorless because it has devoid, its color identity is still white and black, and it can't be included in a Commander deck where the commander's color identity doesn't include both white and black.
  • Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
  • If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. You can't cast it.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Abstruse Appropriation's effect are exiled, and any cards still exiled by it remain exiled.
  • In the rare case where the exiled card is a land card (probably because that land became a copy of a permanent while it was still on the battlefield), you won't be able to play it from exile.
  • Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid a color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.

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    Tcgplayer / 2.65 USD 0.66 USD
    Cardmarket 0.54 EUR / 1.47 EUR
    Manapool 0.18 USD / 1.31 USD
    Cardkingdom / 1.99 USD 0.69 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Devoid (This card has no color.) Exile target nonland permanent. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend colorless mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

    Draining Whelk #62 Creature — Illusion

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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Illusion
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flash Flying

    Rules

  • Draining Whelk's ability counters the target spell even if you can't put counters on Draining Whelk, most likely because Draining Whelk left the battlefield before the ability resolved.
  • For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.
  • If the target spell is an illegal target by the time Draining Whelk's ability tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't put any counters on Draining Whelk. If the target is legal but the spell can't be countered, you do put counters on Draining Whelk.

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    Cardkingdom / 1.99 USD 0.49 USD
    Manapool / 0.65 USD 0.36 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.46 EUR 0.2 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.85 USD 0.38 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flash Flying When this creature enters,countertarget spell. Put X +1/+1 counters on this creature, where X is that spell's mana value.

    Duplicant #122 Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter

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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 2/4
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Shapeshifter
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • Abilities that define a * in a creature's power and toughness apply while that card is in exile, but abilities that add or subtract power and toughness don't. For example, the ability of Crusader of Odric applies to determine Duplicant's power and toughness, but the ability of Death's Shadow doesn't.
  • Duplicant's base power and toughness change to the imprinted card's power and toughness. Counters and other effects that modify Duplicant's power and toughness still apply.
  • Duplicant's power and toughness are constantly updated if the exiled card's power and/or toughness change.
  • If a melded permanent or a merged permanent is exiled by Duplicant's triggered ability, that ability's controller chooses the relative timestamp of the exiled cards. Duplicant looks at the information of the one with the latest timestamp.

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

    Text

    Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

    Gonti, Lord of Luxury #1566 Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Aetherborn
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
  • Casting the card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • Gonti doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • If you leave the game, the card remains exiled face down indefinitely. No player may look at it.
  • You may look at and cast that card (and spend mana as though it were mana of any type to do so) even if Gonti leaves the battlefield. If another player gains control of Gonti, that player can't look at or cast the card, and you still can.
  • You pay the costs for the exiled card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost.
  • The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless. Snow mana is not a type of mana. Gonti, Lord of Luxury won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.

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    Tcgplayer 6.2 USD
    Cardkingdom 8.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.64 EUR 3.6 EUR
    Manapool 5.83 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Praetor's Grasp #1861 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Other players, including the card’s owner, can’t look at the card while it remains exiled.
  • Playing a card exiled with Praetor’s Grasp follows all the normal rules for playing that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all timing restrictions, for example.

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    Tcgplayer 12.93 USD
    Manapool 12.22 USD / 13.17 USD
    Cardkingdom / 14.99 USD 15.99 USD
    Cardmarket 9.07 EUR / 9.36 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

    Siphon Insight #54 Instant

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flashback

    Rules

  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • Only you get to look at the exiled card. Its owner doesn't get to know what it is while it is in exile unless you tell them.
  • You don't have to disclose which card you exiled and which card you put on the bottom of the library. For example, if your opponent knows what the top card of their library is and you cast Siphon Insight, you don't have to tell them where you put that card.
  • You may play the card even if it is a land.
  • You must still follow all normal timing rules to play a card exiled with Siphon Insight.

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    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR / 0.56 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.3 USD 0.22 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.23 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Flashback

    Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger #15s aka. New-lamog Legendary Creature — Eldrazi

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 10
    Power/Toughness: 10/10
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Eldrazi
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Indestructible

    Rules

  • Cards exiled by Ulamog's first and third abilities are exiled face up.
  • If the player has less than twenty cards in their library, exile all of them. That player won't lose the game until they have to draw a card from an empty library.
  • Ulamog's first ability resolves independently of Ulamog once they've both been put on the stack. If Ulamog is countered, that triggered ability will still resolve. That triggered ability will always resolve before Ulamog does.

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    Cardmarket 112.99 EUR / 37.57 EUR
    Tcgplayer 58.9 USD
    Manapool 44.33 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 you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.