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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Illusionist's Bracers

Try these similar blue artifacts:

  • Thousand-Year Elixir (untap/activate abilities faster)
  • Magewright's Stone (untap ability-using creatures)
  • Training Grounds (reduce ability activation cost, though not copy) All manipulate activated abilities, as Illusionist's Bracers does, but Bracers specifically copies them. Closest direct analog is Strionic Resonator, which copies triggered abilities. Blue doesn't have many direct parallels for artifact ability-copiers.

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Illusionist's Bracers #260 Artifact — Equipment

Variations: v1 v2 v3

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  • Equipment
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Equip

    Rules

  • An activated ability is written in the form "Cost: Effect."
  • If Illusionist's Bracers somehow becomes equipped to a creature an opponent controls, and an activated ability (that isn't a mana ability) of that creature is activated, you will control the copy of that ability.
  • If the ability has {X} in its cost, the value of X is copied.
  • If the ability is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode. You can't choose a different one.
  • If the cost of an activated ability requires Illusionist's Bracers or the equipped creature to be sacrificed, the ability won't be copied. At the time the ability is considered activated (after all costs are paid), Illusionist's Bracers is no longer equipped to that creature.
  • The copy will have the same targets as the ability it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • A mana ability is an ability that (1) isn't a loyalty ability, (2) doesn't target, and (3) could add mana when it resolves.

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    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 4.14 USD / 4.3 USD
    Cardmarket 2.46 EUR / 3.03 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.99 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 4.05 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

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    Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip

    Magewright's Stone #462 Artifact

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    Rules

  • If an activated ability with {T} in its cost is granted to a creature by an effect (such as Hypervolt Grasp’s effect, for instance), Magewright’s Stone can untap that creature.
  • This looks for the {T} symbol. The phrase “tap an untapped creature you control” isn’t the same and doesn’t count.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 6.36 USD / 6.59 USD
    Cardmarket 4.12 EUR / 5.18 EUR
    Cardkingdom 9.49 USD
    Cardsphere 6.46 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

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    , : Untap target creature that has an activated ability with in its cost.

    Strionic Resonator #165 Artifact

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    Rules

  • Any choices made when the triggered ability resolves won't have been made yet when it's copied. Any such choices will be made separately when the copy resolves. If the triggered ability asks you to pay a cost (such as that of Frenzied Goblin), you pay that cost for the copy.
  • If a triggered ability is linked to a second ability, copies of that triggered ability are also linked to that second ability. If the second ability refers to "the exiled card," it refers to all cards exiled by the triggered ability and the copy. For example, if Fiend Hunter's enters-the-battlefield ability is copied and two creatures are exiled, they both return when Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield.
  • If the triggered ability divides damage or distributes counters among a number of targets (for example, the ability of Bogardan Hellkite), the division and number of targets can't be changed. If you choose new targets, you must choose the same number of targets.
  • If the triggered ability is modal (that is, if it says, "Choose one —" or similar), the mode is copied and can't be changed.
  • In some cases involving linked abilities, an ability requires information about "the exiled card." When this happens, the ability gets multiple answers. If these answers are being used to determine the value of a variable, the sum is used. For example, if Elite Arcanist's enters-the-battlefield ability is copied, two cards are exiled. The value of X in the activation cost of Elite Arcanist's other ability is the sum of the two cards' mana values. As the ability resolves, you create copies of both cards and can cast none, one, or both of the copies in any order.
  • Strionic Resonator targets a triggered ability that has triggered and is on the stack and creates another instance of that ability on the stack. It doesn't cause any object to gain an ability.
  • The source of the copy is the same as the source of the original ability.
  • Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]."

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 4.72 USD
    Cardmarket 4.28 EUR / 2.5 EUR
    Cardkingdom 8.99 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

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    , : Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

    Thousand-Year Elixir #263 Artifact

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    Converted Cost: 3
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    Rules

  • Thousand-Year Elixir doesn’t actually grant haste to creatures you control, nor does it let you attack with them as though they had haste.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 13.25 USD / 99.93 USD
    Cardmarket 9.27 EUR / 50.47 EUR
    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD / 129.99 USD
    Cardsphere 12.11 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

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    You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. , : Untap target creature.

    Training Grounds #6 Enchantment

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    Converted Cost: 1
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    Rules

  • Training Grounds won't affect a cost that isn't the cost to activate a creature's activated ability. For example, it won't affect Flameblast Dragon's {X}{R} cost, since that's a cost paid when a triggered ability resolves, and it won't affect a kicker cost, since that's an additional cost to cast a spell. Activated ability costs appear before a colon (:) in a card's rules text, or, in the case of some keywords, before a colon in reminder text.
  • If an activated ability of a creature you control costs no generic mana to activate (for example, if it costs {R}{R}, it costs {0}, or it costs only nonmana actions such as {T} or "Sacrifice a creature"), Training Grounds simply won't affect it. In particular, it won't increase the cost to include a mana payment of {1}.
  • Training Grounds affects only creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities that work in other zones (such as cycling or unearth) won't be reduced.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the amount you pay for a creature's activated ability cost that includes {X}. For example, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief has an activated ability that costs {X}{B}{B}. If you control Training Grounds and you activate the ability with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{B}{B}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana, as Crimson Hellkite's ability does.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the part of an activation cost represented by generic mana symbols down to nothing, as long as it still costs at least one mana. For example, if an activation cost is {2}{G}, you'd have to pay only {G}. If an activation cost is {2}, though, you'd still have to pay {1}.
  • Training Grounds takes the total cost to activate a creature's activated ability into account, not just the cost printed on it. For example, Urabrask has an activated ability that costs {R}, and Suppression Field says "Activated abilities cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities." Since activating Urabrask's activated ability would now cost {2}{R}, Training Grounds reduces that cost back to {R}.
  • Training Grounds won't affect the part of an activation cost represented by colored mana symbols or snow mana symbols. It also won't affect nonmana parts of an activation cost, if there are any.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 11.68 USD
    Cardkingdom 17.99 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

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    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Illusionist's Bracers Artifact — Equipment Normal - ~$4.76

    Magewright's Stone Artifact Normal - ~$6.09

    Strionic Resonator Artifact Normal - ~$5.2

    Thousand-Year Elixir Artifact Normal - ~$35.57

    Training Grounds Enchantment Normal - ~$9.26

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