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"Find me cards equivalent to: Apex Observatory"

Here are cards equivalent to Apex Observatory (Colorless Artifacts; effect: casting spells for free):
1. Mystic Forge – Lets you cast colorless spells/artifacts from the top of your library.
2. Vedalken Orrery – Cast spells as though they had flash.
3. Panoptic Mirror – Exiles and copies an instant/sorcery; lets you cast it for free each turn.
4. Isochron Scepter – Casts imprinted instant for free each turn.
5. Semblance Anvil – Imprints a card; spells of its type cost {2} less.


Reason: All are colorless artifacts manipulating spell casting or cost, like Apex Observatory.

Found Cards

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Isochron Scepter

Mystic Forge

Panoptic Mirror

Semblance Anvil

Vedalken Orrery

Isochron Scepter #36 Artifact

Variations: v1 v2
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  • If Isochron Scepter leaves the battlefield while the activated ability is on the stack, the ability can still make a copy. On the other hand, if the imprinted card leaves the exile zone while the activated ability is on the stack, the copy can't be made.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
  • If you don't want to cast the copy, you can choose not to; the copy ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked.
  • You cast the copy while the ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn.

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    Manapool 29.79 USD
    Cardmarket 17.4 EUR
    Tcgplayer 28.43 USD

    Legalities

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    Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. , : You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

    Mystic Forge #1012 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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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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    Cardmarket 3.56 EUR
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    Legalities

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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.

    Panoptic Mirror #136 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
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  • As Panoptic Mirror's triggered ability resolves, it allows you to create a copy of one of the instant or sorcery cards imprinted on Panoptic Mirror in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.
  • Exiling a card when the activated ability resolves is optional. If you choose to exile a card, you can exile only a card with mana value equal to X.
  • The triggered ability triggers only once each upkeep, not once per imprinted card. If no cards are imprinted on Panoptic Mirror when the triggered ability resolves, it does nothing.
  • You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.
  • You may imprint a card on Panoptic Mirror in response to the upkeep-triggered ability. If you do, that card is available to copy when the triggered ability resolves.
  • The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.
  • To imprint a split card, you pay X equal to card's mana value, determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides.

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    Tcgplayer / 65.38 USD 27.55 USD
    Manapool / 59.58 USD 15.63 USD
    Cardmarket / 22.09 EUR 7.58 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 89.99 USD 29.99 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Imprint — , : You may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X from your hand. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may copy a card exiled with this artifact. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

    Semblance Anvil #201 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.
  • Semblance Anvil can reduce the amount you pay for a spell's cost that includes {X}. For example, Blaze is a sorcery that costs {X}{R}. If the card exiled with Semblance Anvil is a sorcery, and you want to cast Blaze with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{R}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana (as Drain Life does).
  • Semblance Anvil takes the total cost to cast a spell into account, not just its mana cost. This includes additional costs (such as kicker) and alternative costs (such as evoke). It also includes cost increases from other sources (such as Lodestone Golem's ability).
  • Semblance Anvil won't affect the part of a spell's cost represented by colored mana symbols. For example, a spell that normally costs {1}{U} to cast would cost {U} if it shared a card type with the exiled card.
  • Semblance Anvil's cost reduction effect is mandatory.
  • Spells you cast that share multiple card types with the exiled card still cost just {2} less to cast. They don't get a greater cost reduction.

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    Cardkingdom 6.99 USD / 12.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 4.89 EUR 2.29 EUR
    Manapool 4.94 USD
    Tcgplayer 6.63 USD / 9.1 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost less to cast.

    Vedalken Orrery #206 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • The controller of Vedalken Orrery can cast nonland artifact, creature, enchantment, and sorcery cards any time they could cast an instant. This includes on other players' turns and during the upkeep step, draw step, combat phase, and end step.
  • This applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can only be activated "any time you could cast a sorcery".

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    Tcgplayer 19.34 USD / 11.26 USD
    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD / 27.99 USD
    Manapool 19.91 USD / 50 USD
    Cardmarket 6.8 EUR / 8.25 EUR

    Legalities

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

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    You may cast spells as though they had flash.