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"Find me cards equivalent to: Brain in a Jar"

Equivalent cards to Brain in a Jar (artifact, colorless, interacts with counters and casting spells for free) include:
1. Aether Vial — {T}: Put a charge counter, then you may put a creature card with CMC equal to the charge counters onto the battlefield.
2. Pyromancer's Goggles — {T}: Add {R}; when casting a red instant or sorcery, copy it (not identical, but interacts with spells and provides free effect).
3. Panoptic Mirror — {T}, Exile an instant or sorcery with X charge counters, cast a copy for free each upkeep.


Reason: Artifacts with counter mechanics and the ability to cast (or copy) spells for free are rare, but these are the closest analogs that share similar attributes to Brain in a Jar.

Found Cards

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Aether Vial

Brain in a Jar

Panoptic Mirror

Pyromancer's Goggles

Aether Vial #B27 Artifact

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  • If Aether Vial leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, use its last known number of charge counters to determine what you may put from your hand onto the battlefield.
  • If a card in a player's hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

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    At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a chargecounteron this artifact. : You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.

    Brain in a Jar #247 Artifact

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    Scry

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  • If Brain in a Jar leaves the battlefield before its first ability resolves, use the number of counters on it at the moment it left to determine what spell you may cast. That number won’t change because you can’t put a new counter on Brain in a Jar.
  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
  • If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as awaken costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Lightning Axe, you must pay those to cast the card.
  • When resolving the first ability of Brain in a Jar, the newly-placed charge counter will be counted when determining what spells you may cast. No player may take any action between you placing the counter and choosing which spell to cast.

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    , : Put a chargecounteron this artifact, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand without paying its mana cost. , , Remove X charge counters from this artifact: Scry X.

    Panoptic Mirror #136 Artifact

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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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    Cardkingdom 21.99 USD / 74.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 94 USD 25.53 USD
    Manapool / 48.63 USD 16.14 USD
    Cardmarket / 23.49 EUR 4.95 EUR

    Legalities

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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.

    Pyromancer's Goggles #236 Legendary Artifact

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  • A copy is created even if the spell cast with the red mana produced by Pyromancer's Goggles has been countered or otherwise left the stack without resolving by the time that ability resolves. The copy resolves before the original spell.
  • Any red instant or sorcery spell you spend the mana on will be copied, not just one that requires targets.
  • If more than one red mana produced by a Pyromancer's Goggles is spent to cast a single red instant or sorcery spell, the delayed triggered ability associated with each mana spent will trigger. That many copies will be created. It doesn't matter if this red mana was produced by one Pyromancer's Goggles or by multiple Pyromancer's Goggles.
  • If the copied spell has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.
  • If the copied spell is modal (that is, it says "Choose one –" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose a different one.
  • The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
  • The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal.
  • The delayed triggered ability will trigger whether Pyromancer's Goggles is still on the battlefield or not.
  • The mana produced by Pyromancer's Goggles can be spent on anything, not just a red instant or sorcery spell.
  • You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.

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    Manapool 0.62 USD / 5.37 USD
    Cardkingdom / 5.99 USD 1.79 USD
    Cardmarket / 5.05 EUR 1.34 EUR
    Tcgplayer 1.26 USD / 6.22 USD

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    : Add . When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.