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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Foil

Equivalent blue cards to Foil (counterspell with an alternate cost):

  • Force of Will (exile a blue card & pay 1 life)
  • Disrupting Shoal (exile a blue card with X cost)
  • Pact of Negation (free, but pay on next upkeep)
  • Commandeer (exile two blue cards to cast for free)

All offer alternative ways to counter spells without normal mana.

Results:

Commandeer #9 Instant

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 7
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • After Commandeer resolves, you control the targeted spell. Any instance of "you" in that spell's text now refers to you, "an opponent" refers to one of your opponents, and so on. The change of control happens before new targets are chosen, so any targeting restrictions such as "target opponent" or "target creature you control" are now made in reference to you, not the spell's original controller. You may either change those targets to be legal in reference to you, or, if those are the spell's only targets, the spell doesn't resolve for having illegal targets. When the spell resolves, any illegal targets are unaffected by it and you make all decisions the spell's effect calls for.
  • If the targeted spell has a triggered ability that copies it (for example, replicate or storm), the copies will be controlled by the player who cast that spell.
  • If you don't have two cards of the right color in your hand, you can't choose to cast the spell using the alternative cost.
  • If you gain control of an instant or sorcery spell with Commandeer, it will still be put into its owner's graveyard when it resolves.
  • You can't exile a card from your hand to pay for itself. At the time you would pay costs, that card is on the stack, not in your hand.
  • You may change any of the targeted spell's targets. If you change a target, you must choose a legal target for the spell. If you can't, you must leave the target the same (even if that target is now illegal).
  • You may pay the alternative cost rather than the card's mana cost. Any additional costs are paid as normal.
  • If you Commandeer a spell for which buyback has been paid, the card returns to its owner's hand.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.57 USD / 2.45 USD
    Cardmarket 0.88 EUR / 2.29 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.99 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.56 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

    You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

    Disrupting Shoal #51 Instant — Arcane

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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  • Arcane
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Disrupting Shoal can target any spell, but does nothing unless that spell's mana value is X.
  • If a card in your hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the mana value of that spell, even if it was cast for an alternative cost and no mana was spent on X.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 4.95 USD / 11.47 USD
    Cardmarket 4 EUR / 14.68 EUR
    Cardkingdom 5.49 USD / 13.99 USD
    Cardsphere 5.5 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

    You may exile a blue card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell if its mana value is X.

    Foil #34 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.91 USD / 164.99 USD
    Cardmarket 5.05 EUR / 82.12 EUR
    Cardkingdom 7.49 USD
    Cardsphere 4.45 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

    You maydiscardan Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

    Force of Will #2023EU aka. Force Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Special
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    EDH Bracket Attr:
    Game Changer
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying (such as the alternative cost of Force of Will), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. Force of Will’s mana value is always 5, no matter what you paid to cast it.

    • 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

    You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

    Pact of Negation #77 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 0
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Although originally printed with a characteristic-defining ability that defined its color, this card now has a color indicator. This color indicator can't be affected by text-changing effects (such as the one created by Crystal Spray), although color-changing effects can still overwrite it.
  • If Pact of Negation is countered or otherwise doesn't resolve (perhaps because its target became illegal), the delayed triggered ability that threatens you with a game loss won't trigger at the beginning of your next upkeep.
  • If Pact of Negation resolves with a legal target but fails to counter that spell (most likely because that spell can't be countered), the delayed triggered ability will still trigger at the beginning of your next upkeep and you will have to pay. Or else.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 15.42 USD / 28.6 USD
    Cardmarket 12.84 EUR / 21.61 EUR
    Cardkingdom 17.99 USD / 34.99 USD
    Cardsphere 14.96 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

    Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game.

    Commandeer Instant Normal - ~$2.84

    Disrupting Shoal Instant — Arcane Normal - ~$7.67

    Foil Instant Normal - ~$31.63

    Force of Will Instant Normal

    Pact of Negation Instant Normal - ~$16.31

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