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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Contingency Plan

Equivalent cards to Contingency Plan (blue, surveil/scry-like effects):

  • Thought Scour: Instant, mills 2 and draws a card.
  • Consider: Instant, surveil 1 and draws a card.
  • Strategic Planning: Sorcery, look at top 3, pick one for hand, rest in graveyard.
  • Chart a Course: Sorcery, draw 2, then discard unless you attacked.
  • Compulsive Research: Draw 3, discard 2 unless you discard a land.

These are all blue spells that manipulate the top of your library or self-mill, similar to Contingency Plan (look at top 5, put any into the graveyard and the rest back in any order).

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Chart a Course #2150 Sorcery

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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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    Draw two cards. Thendiscarda card unless you attacked this turn.

    Compulsive Research #14 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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  • The target player can discard either one land card or two cards which may or may not be lands. The player can discard one land and one other card or two land cards if they choose.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.29 USD 0.33 USD 0.46 USD
    Cardmarket 0.35 EUR / 0.71 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD 1.49 USD 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.23 USD 0.34 USD 0.51 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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    Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless theydiscarda land card.

    Consider #157 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Surveil

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  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.

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    Tcgplayer 0.3 USD / 0.36 USD
    Cardmarket 0.47 EUR / 0.68 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD / 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.2 USD / 0.23 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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    Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

    Contingency Plan #52 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Surveil

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  • When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.17 USD / 0.47 USD
    Cardmarket 0.08 EUR / 0.49 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.5 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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    Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

    Strategic Planning #20 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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  • If there are fewer than three cards in your library, you look at all of them, put one of them into your hand, and put the rest into your graveyard.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.19 USD 0.21 USD 0.32 USD
    Cardmarket 0.16 EUR / 0.2 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD 0.2 USD 0.31 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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    Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

    Thought Scour #5 Instant

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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

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  • Follow the instructions in the order listed on the card: if you target yourself, you'll put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard and then draw a card.
  • If the target player is an illegal target when Thought Scour tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't draw a card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price

    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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    Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

    Chart a Course Sorcery Normal

    Compulsive Research Sorcery Normal - ~$0.54

    Consider Instant Normal - ~$0.45

    Contingency Plan Sorcery Normal - ~$0.48

    Strategic Planning Sorcery Normal - ~$0.26

    Thought Scour Instant Normal

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