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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Apex Observatory

Equivalent cards to Apex Observatory (blue, scry/casting from top, card advantage) include:

  • Future Sight (see/play top card of library)
  • Mystic Forge (see/play top, artifact version)
  • Experimental Frenzy (red variant, play from top but can't play from hand)
  • Garruk’s Horde (green, with similar effect for creatures)


Reason: All allow you to play cards from the top of your library or see them, fitting the theme and color criteria.

Results:

Experimental Frenzy #99p Enchantment

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Experimental Frenzy 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.
  • 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.
  • You can play a land card on top of your library only if you have available land plays remaining.
  • You can’t cast spells or play lands from your hand, but you may take other actions with those cards (such as discarding them to activate their cycling or bloodrush abilities).
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the cards you play from your library.
  • You’ll still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.45 USD / 0.85 USD
    Cardmarket 0.23 EUR / 0.93 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.41 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

    You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. You can't play lands or cast spells from your hand. :Destroythis enchantment.

    Future Sight #71 Enchantment

    Info

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price

    Legalities

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

    Text

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

    Mystic Forge #1012 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • 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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 6.22 USD
    Cardkingdom 4.99 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

    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.

    Experimental Frenzy Enchantment Normal - ~$2.44

    Future Sight Enchantment Normal

    Mystic Forge Artifact Normal - ~$5.57

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