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"Find me cards equivalent to: Elminster's Simulacrum"

Equivalent cards (same type, color, and similar effect) to Elminster's Simulacrum in Blue (U) and Instant speed are:

  • Cackling Counterpart
    Instant | Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

  • Quasiduplicate
    Jump-start, but it's a sorcery. Doesn't fit as instant, but similar effect.

There aren't many blue instants that copy creatures your opponents control. Elminster's Simulacrum is unique for letting you copy opponent's creatures at instant speed. Closest is Cackling Counterpart, but it copies your own. Most blue creature-copying is either limited to your own creatures or isn't instant speed.

Short reason: Blue rarely copies opponent's creatures at instant speed—Elminster's Simulacrum is nearly unique in this way.

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Cackling Counterpart

Elminster's Simulacrum

Quasiduplicate

Cackling Counterpart #72 Instant

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flashback

    Rules

  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • Any “enters” triggered ability of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this creature] enters” or “[this creature] enters with” abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
  • If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If the copied creature is a token, the token that’s created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.
  • If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
  • The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.28 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD
    Cardmarket 0.29 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

    Elminster's Simulacrum #68s Instant

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Copy

    Rules

  • No entries

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    Tcgplayer 2.12 USD
    Cardkingdom 4.99 USD
    Cardmarket 2.6 EUR / 4.05 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    For each opponent, you create a token that's a copy of up to one target creature that player controls.

    Quasiduplicate #51p Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "As [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[This creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied creature will also work.
  • If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
  • If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
  • If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
  • If the copied creature is copying something else, the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature is copying.
  • If the copied creature is itself a token, the token created by Quasiduplicate copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it.
  • The token copies exactly what is printed on the creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions when casting a spell with jump-start, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 1.5 USD / 3.21 USD
    Cardmarket 0.68 EUR / 1.14 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.99 USD / 7.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 2.57 USD 1.64 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)