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"Find me cards equivalent to: Forensic Gadgeteer"

Equivalent or similar cards to Forensic Gadgeteer (blue, artifact-synergy, activated abilities reduction):

  • Etherium Sculptor: Reduces artifact spells' cost, blue, artifact synergy.
  • Foundry Inspector: Reduces artifact spells' cost, colorless, artifact synergy.
  • Vedalken Engineer: Blue, Vedalken Artificer, artifact mana synergy.
  • Emry, Lurker of the Loch: Blue, cares about artifacts, recursion.

Closest match in blue that specifically reduces artifact activated abilities:

  • Unwinding Clock: Not blue, but gives artifact untap synergy.
  • No exact blue equivalent reduces activated abilities costs for artifacts the way Forensic Gadgeteer does, but above cards have similar blue artifact synergies.

(Note: Chief Engineer is another similar blue Vedalken Artificer.)

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Chief Engineer

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Etherium Sculptor

Forensic Gadgeteer

Foundry Inspector

Unwinding Clock

Vedalken Engineer

Chief Engineer #47 Creature — Vedalken Artificer

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 1/3
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  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vedalken
  • Artificer
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    Rules

  • Multiple instances of convoke on a single spell are redundant.
  • Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
  • If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.
  • Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.
  • Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.
  • When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
  • You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

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    Manapool 0.69 USD / 2.86 USD
    Cardkingdom / 3.99 USD 1.79 USD
    Tcgplayer / 3.11 USD 0.98 USD
    Cardmarket 1.15 EUR / 2.09 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Artifact spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting an artifact spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

    Emry, Lurker of the Loch #71 Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Merfolk
  • Wizard
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Affinity Mill

    Rules

  • Casting the target card causes it to leave your graveyard and become a new object. You can't cast it again if it returns to your graveyard this turn.
  • If Emry's last ability targets an artifact land card, you can't play it. Effects that allow you to "cast" a card don't allow you to play a land card.
  • Once you announce that you're casting a spell, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to change by how much Emry's cost is reduced.
  • The cost reduction ability reduces only the generic mana in Emry's cost. The colored mana must still be paid.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Emry). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the target artifact card. Unless it has flash, you'll most likely only be able to cast it during your main phase while the stack is empty.
  • You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.

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    Tcgplayer 0.61 USD
    Manapool 0.57 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Cardmarket 0.65 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.) When Emry enters,millfour cards. : Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

    Etherium Sculptor #72 Artifact Creature — Vedalken Artificer

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/2
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
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  • Vedalken
  • Artificer
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • This effect can reduce only the generic portion of the artifact spell's total cost.
  • This effect doesn't change the mana cost or mana value of an artifact spell. Rather, it reduces the total cost of the spell, which is the amount you actually pay while casting it. The total cost takes into account additional or alternative costs.

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    Cardmarket 0.76 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.74 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD
    Manapool 0.78 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

    Forensic Gadgeteer #342 Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vedalken
  • Artificer
  • Detective
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Clue

    Abilities/Keywords

    Investigate

    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Forensic Gadgeteer.
  • Clue is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some cards with other permanent types, it's never a creature type, a land type, or anything but an artifact type.
  • Forensic Gadgeteer's last ability affects only abilities of artifacts you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of artifact cards that work in other zones, such as cycling, won't be reduced.
  • If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Wrench to pay for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's activated ability.
  • Some abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Clue". Those abilities trigger whenever you sacrifice a Clue for any reason, not just to activate a Clue's activated ability.
  • Some spells and abilities that investigate may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Clue tokens.
  • You can't sacrifice a Clue to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Clue token to activate its own ability and also to activate Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's ability.

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    Cardmarket / 2.4 EUR 1.21 EUR
    Manapool / 1.96 USD 1.75 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.76 USD / 3.24 USD
    Cardkingdom 4.49 USD / 5.99 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ",Sacrificethis token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Foundry Inspector #2106 Artifact Creature — Construct

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 3/2
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Construct
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • If an artifact spell has {X} in its mana cost, choose the value for X first, and then reduce the cost by {1}. For example, an artifact that costs {X} with X chosen as 4 costs {3} to cast if you control Foundry Inspector.
  • Once a player has announced an artifact spell, no player may take actions to try to remove Foundry Inspector from the battlefield before that spell's cost is locked in.

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    Cardkingdom / 11.99 USD 12.99 USD
    Cardmarket 11.98 EUR
    Manapool 9.95 USD / 10.35 USD
    Tcgplayer 12.3 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

    Unwinding Clock #164 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Rules

  • Even if you control more than one Unwinding Clock, you'll only untap your artifacts once during each other player's untap step.
  • Some effects, such as the one generated by Rust Tick's ability, state that an artifact doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. These effects won't apply and stop the artifact from untapping during another player's untap step.
  • Those artifacts untap at the same time as the active player's permanents. You have no choice about what untaps and can't choose to not untap an artifact you control.

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    Manapool / 51.04 USD 19.02 USD
    Cardmarket 14.31 EUR / 34.36 EUR
    Cardkingdom 27.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 19.47 USD / 63.01 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

    Vedalken Engineer #15 Creature — Vedalken Artificer

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vedalken
  • Artificer
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Cardkingdom 0.39 USD
    Cardmarket 0.24 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.46 USD
    Manapool 0.36 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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    : Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.