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6 Cards Found

AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Fact or Fiction

Equivalent cards (blue, card draw, choice effect):

  • Deep Analysis (draw, extra value)
  • Read the Bones (draw, opponent picks piles—sort of with scry)
  • Compulsive Research (draw, discard drawback)
  • Thirst for Knowledge (draw, discard artifact or two cards)
  • Frantic Search (draw and discard, instant speed)


Reason: These cards are blue (or blue-focused), give card advantage, and involve draw or selection. None exactly replicate Fact or Fiction, but all offer similar value or interactivity.

Results:

Compulsive Research #14 Sorcery

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • 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 0.27 USD 0.32 USD 0.47 USD
    Cardmarket 0.28 EUR / 0.56 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD 0.99 USD 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.36 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

    Text

    Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless theydiscarda land card.

    Deep Analysis #94 aka. Deep Anal Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD
    Cardmarket 0.18 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.08 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

    Text

    Target player draws two cards. Flashback—, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

    Fact or Fiction #1995 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Piles may be empty.

    • 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

    Text

    Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

    Frantic Search #1996 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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

  • You draw two cards and discard two cards all while Frantic Search is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.
  • You choose which lands to untap as the spell resolves. They aren't targeted, and they don't have to be lands that you control.

    • 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

    Text

    Draw two cards, thendiscardtwo cards. Untap up to three lands.

    Read the Bones #101 Sorcery

    Info

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability's targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't scry.
  • The loss of life is part of the spell's effect. It's not an additional cost. If Read the Bones doesn't resolve, you won't lose life.
  • When you scry, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards on the bottom of your library, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them on the bottom.
  • You choose how to order cards returned to your library after scrying no matter where you put them.
  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, that means you'll scry last. For others, that means you'll scry and then perform other actions.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.29 USD
    Cardmarket 0.37 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD
    Cardsphere 0.27 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

    Text

    Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

    Thirst for Knowledge #48 Instant

    Info

    Color:
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • You can discard either one artifact card or two cards which may or may not be artifacts. If you really want to, you can discard two artifact cards.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD
    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.17 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

    Text

    Draw three cards. Thendiscardtwo cards unless youdiscardan artifact card.

    Compulsive Research Sorcery Normal - ~$1.76

    Deep Analysis Sorcery Normal - ~$2.48

    Fact or Fiction Instant Normal

    Frantic Search Instant Normal

    Read the Bones Sorcery Normal - ~$2.61

    Thirst for Knowledge Instant Normal - ~$2.49

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