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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Bastion Inventor

Equivalent cards to Bastion Inventor (blue, artifact creature with hexproof, improvise, and reasonable size):
1. Herald of Secret Streams – Blue creature, gives hexproof-like evasion (unblockable to creatures with +1/+1 counters).
2. Sphinx of Foresight – Blue, 4/4 flyer, hexproof until your first turn.
3. Aethershield Artificer – Blue-adjacent (actually white), grants indestructible to artifact creatures.

Blue artifact creatures with hexproof are quite rare; Bastion Inventor is unique for cost, size, and abilities. Closest alternatives often lose improvise or hexproof.

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Aethershield Artificer #140 Creature — Dwarf Artificer

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 3/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Dwarf
  • Artificer
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.13 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.11 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

    At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don'tdestroyit.)

    Bastion Inventor #AER-30 Creature — Vedalken Artificer

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vedalken
  • Artificer
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Hexproof Improvise

    Rules

  • Because improvise isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
  • Equipment attached to a creature doesn’t become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn’t cause the creature to become tapped.
  • If an artifact you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell’s costs. You won’t be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won’t be on the battlefield when you pay the spell’s costs, so you won’t be able to tap it for improvise.
  • Improvise can’t be used to pay for anything other than the cost of casting the spell. For example, it can’t be used during the resolution of an ability that says “Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.”
  • Improvise can’t pay for {W}, {U}, {B}, {R}, {G}, or {C} mana symbols in a spell’s total cost.
  • Improvise doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value.
  • Tapping an artifact won’t cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
  • When calculating a spell’s total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.02 USD
    Cardmarket 0.04 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.19 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

    Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .) Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

    Herald of Secret Streams #XLN-59 Creature — Merfolk Warrior

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

    Rules

  • Once a creature you control has become blocked, putting a +1/+1 counter on it won't cause it to become unblocked.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 6.87 USD
    Cardmarket 3.72 EUR
    Cardkingdom 9.49 USD
    Cardsphere 4.85 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

    Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

    Sphinx of Foresight #55 Creature — Sphinx

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Scry

    Rules

  • If you reveal two Sphinxes of Foresight from your opening hand, you'll scry 3 twice; you won't scry 6. Any cards you put on top of your library the first time you scry 3 will be part of the second time you scry 3.
  • A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD / 0.79 USD
    Cardmarket 0.31 EUR / 1.29 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 1.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.46 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 reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep. Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

    Aethershield Artificer Creature — Dwarf Artificer Normal - ~$2.49

    Bastion Inventor Creature — Vedalken Artificer Normal - ~$2.46

    Herald of Secret Streams Creature — Merfolk Warrior Normal - ~$5.94

    Sphinx of Foresight Creature — Sphinx Normal - ~$2.22

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