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"Find me cards equivalent to: Clockspinning"

Equivalent cards to Clockspinning (Instant, blue, manipulates counters):
1. Hindervines - Not equivalent, not blue, doesn't manipulate counters.
2. Fuel for the Cause - Blue instant, but only proliferates counters.
3. Steady Progress - Blue instant, proliferates (adds counters to permanents or players).
4. Thrummingbird - Not instant.
5. Votal Chemist - Not instant.

Closest equivalents:

  • Steady Progress — Instant, blue, $2U, proliferate, draw a card.
  • Tezzeret's Gambit — Not an instant (is sorcery), but blue and adds (not removes) counters.
  • Fate Transfer — Instant, blue, $1U, move all counters from one permanent to another.

Summary: No exact blue instant with buyback that both removes and adds one specific counter. Clockspinning is unique among blue instants; Steady Progress and Fate Transfer are the closest functionally. Clockspinning itself is often used for its unique effect.

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Clockspinning

Fate Transfer

Fuel for the Cause

Hindervines

Steady Progress

Tezzeret's Gambit

Thrummingbird

Clockspinning #53 Instant

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 1
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  • Instant
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Buyback

    Rules

  • Clockspinning can affect any kind of counter, not just a time counter. The type of counter isn't chosen until resolution. Whether to add or remove a counter isn't chosen until resolution.
  • If the target is a permanent and it has no counter on it when Clockspinning resolves, nothing happens.
  • Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.
  • Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.
  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.
  • If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, 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, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.
  • Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.
  • The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.
  • When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.
  • You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

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    Cardmarket / 4.49 EUR 0.29 EUR
    Manapool / 9.66 USD 0.26 USD
    Cardkingdom / 10.99 USD 0.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.42 USD / 17 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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    Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Choose acounteron target permanent or suspended card. Remove thatcounterfrom that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

    Fate Transfer #161 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • Fate Transfer moves any kind of counters, not just -1/-1 counters.
  • If either one of the targets becomes illegal (because it leaves the battlefield or for any other reason) by the time Fate Transfer resolves, the counters don’t move. If both targets become illegal, Fate Transfer doesn’t resolve.
  • This effect may result in useless counters being placed on a creature. For example, if an age counter is moved from a creature with cumulative upkeep to a creature without cumulative upkeep, it will have no effect on the new creature.

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    Tcgplayer / 23.14 USD 0.36 USD
    Manapool / 6.99 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 8.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 7.64 EUR 0.25 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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    Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.

    Fuel for the Cause #25 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Proliferate

    Rules

  • If the spell is an illegal target when Fuel for the Cause tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't proliferate.
  • You must be able to target another spell in order to cast Fuel for the Cause. You can't just cast it in order to proliferate, and it can't target itself.
  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
  • If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
  • Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
  • To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
  • You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.

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    Cardmarket / 2.67 EUR 0.44 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 4.99 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool / 2.85 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 4.19 USD 0.34 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each anothercounterof each kind already there.)

    Hindervines #124 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • Hindervines checks whether a creature has a +1/+1 counter on it at the moment it deals damage. It doesn't matter whether a creature had a +1/+1 counter, or was even on the battlefield, when Hindervines resolved.

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    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool / 0.22 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.23 EUR 0.07 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.46 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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    Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with no +1/+1 counters on them.

    Steady Progress #45 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Instant
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Proliferate

    Rules

  • This spell has no targets. You can cast it even if there are no players or permanents with counters on them. If you do, you'll simply draw a card as it resolves.
  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
  • If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
  • Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
  • To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
  • You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.

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    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR / 2.27 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 3.49 USD
    Manapool / 1.53 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 3.19 USD 0.37 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each anothercounterof each kind already there.) Draw a card.

    Tezzeret's Gambit #47 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
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    Proliferate

    Rules

  • A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
  • As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
  • If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
  • Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
  • To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
  • If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
  • Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
  • To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
  • You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.

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    Tcgplayer 0.21 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.18 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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    ( can be paid with either or 2 life.) Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each anothercounterof each kind already there.)

    Thrummingbird #32 Creature — Phyrexian Bird Horror

    Variations: v1 v2 v3
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
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  • Phyrexian
  • Bird
  • Horror
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Proliferate

    Rules

  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
  • If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
  • Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
  • To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
  • You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.

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    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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    Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each anothercounterof each kind already there.)