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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Circular Logic

Equivalent cards to Circular Logic (blue, counterspell, with a discard/graveyard synergy):
1. Countervailing Winds — Counters unless they pay X, X = cards in your graveyard.
2. Mana Leak — Similar mana cost, counters unless they pay 3 (no graveyard synergy).
3. Logic Knot — Blue, uses delve (exile cards from graveyard) to pay, counters unless they pay X.


Reason: All are blue counterspells with some interaction with graveyard or mana payment. Most similar is Countervailing Winds.

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Circular Logic #33 Instant

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Converted Cost: 3
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Madness

    Rules

  • A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
  • A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.
  • Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.
  • Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.
  • Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Circular Logic resolves to determine how much the controller of the target spell has to pay. Circular Logic is still on the stack at that time. It doesn't count itself.
  • If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.
  • If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
  • If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
  • Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 2.57 USD / 18 USD
    Cardmarket 2.58 EUR / 18.61 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.99 USD / 39.99 USD
    Cardsphere 2.09 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

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    Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card in your graveyard. Madness (If youdiscardthis card,discardit into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

    Countervailing Winds #32 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Cycling

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  • Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Countervailing Winds resolves to determine how much mana the controller of the target spell must pay to avoid the spell being countered. Countervailing Winds is still on the stack at this time and won’t count toward this number.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.1 USD / 0.53 USD
    Cardmarket 0.23 EUR / 0.52 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 1.49 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

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    Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card in your graveyard. Cycling (,Discardthis card: Draw a card.)

    Logic Knot #52 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Delve

    Rules

  • Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
  • Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
  • To cast Logic Knot, you choose a value for X, determine the total cost, then pay the total cost with some combination of mana and exiling cards.
  • You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.23 USD / 9.14 USD
    Cardmarket 0.22 EUR / 4.48 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 3.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.28 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

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    Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .) Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

    Mana Leak #4 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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    • Prices

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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

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    Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

    Circular Logic Instant Normal - ~$10.45

    Countervailing Winds Instant Normal - ~$2.01

    Logic Knot Instant Normal - ~$3.48

    Mana Leak Instant Normal

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