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Equivalent cards to Biomancer's Familiar (similarly cost-reducing or ability-enabling, GU colors, creature):
1. Training Grounds — lowers activation costs but is not a creature.
2. Kiora's Follower — GU, untaps other permanents for more activations.
3. Incubation Druid — GU, synergy with adapting and mana abilities, not cost reduction.
4. Zaxara, the Exemplary — GU, mana for abilities, not cost reduction.

Closest equivalents in GU colors and creatures: Kiora's Follower, Incubation Druid.
No GU creature exactly copies the cost-reduction ability as Biomancer's Familiar.

Reason: Cost reduction for activated abilities is rare on GU creatures.

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Biomancer's Familiar

Incubation Druid

Kiora's Follower

Training Grounds

Zaxara, the Exemplary

Biomancer's Familiar #158s Creature — Mutant

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

    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.

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    Cardmarket 4.89 EUR
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    Tcgplayer 18.61 USD
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    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.

    Incubation Druid #302 Creature — Elf Druid

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 0/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elf
  • Druid
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Adapt

    Rules

  • Any change to a land's type or abilities gained by a land can affect the types of mana a land can produce.
  • Incubation Druid checks the effects of all mana-producing abilities of lands you control, but it doesn't check their costs or legality. For example, Spire of Industry says "{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact." If you control Spire of Industry and Incubation Druid, you can tap Incubation Druid for any color of mana. It doesn't matter whether you control an artifact, whether you can pay 1 life, or whether Spire of Industry is untapped.
  • Incubation Druid doesn't care about any restrictions or riders your lands put on the mana they produce, such as those of Unclaimed Territory and Guildmages' Forum. It just produces one mana of the appropriate type, with no restrictions or riders.
  • The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    : Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1counteron it, add three mana of that type instead. : Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

    Kiora's Follower #150 Creature — Merfolk

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Merfolk
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    : Untap another target permanent.

    Training Grounds #20 Enchantment

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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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 reduces the generic mana in waterbend costs for activated abilities. It will not reduce waterbend costs that are additional costs for casting spells.
  • 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.

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    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.

    Zaxara, the Exemplary #1333 Legendary Creature — Nightmare Hydra

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Nightmare
  • Hydra
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Hydra

    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • If X is 0, the 0/0 Hydra token will die immediately after the ability's done resolving unless something else is raising its toughness.
  • If an effect, such as that of Parallel Lives, causes Zaxara's ability to create multiple Hydra tokens, they each receive X +1/+1 counters.
  • If the spell you cast has {X}{X} in its mana cost, the token gets only X counters, not twice X.
  • The Hydra token enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature. Any abilities that modify or trigger on this event apply. After the token is on the battlefield but before any player can take actions, +1/+1 counters are put onto the token.
  • The value of X in Zaxara's last ability is the value of X of the spell you cast.

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    Tcgplayer 21.1 USD
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    Legalities

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

    Text

    Deathtouch : Add two mana of any one color. Whenever you cast a spell with in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.