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"Find me cards equivalent to: Illusionist's Gambit"

Equivalent cards to Illusionist's Gambit (Instant, Blue, unique combat manipulation effect) are rare, but here are some similar blue instants that manipulate combat or attacking:

  • Aetherize: Instant, U, returns all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
  • Mirror Match: Instant, UU, creates token copies of attacking creatures and blocks with them.
  • Turn the Tide: Instant, U, gives all opponents’ creatures -2/-0 until end of turn.

None replicate Illusionist's Gambit exactly, but these share color and combat trick themes.

Found Cards

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Aetherize

Illusionist's Gambit

Mirror Match

Turn the Tide

Aetherize #59 Instant

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  • An "attacking creature" is one that has been declared as an attacker this combat, or one that was put onto the battlefield attacking this combat. Unless that creature leaves combat, it continues to be an attacking creature through the end of combat step, even if the player it was attacking has left the game, or the planeswalker it was attacking has left combat. There's no such thing as an attacking creature outside of the combat phase.

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    Tcgplayer 0.28 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.16 USD
    Cardmarket 0.37 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

    Illusionist's Gambit #166 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • Creatures that didn't attack during the combat phase when Illusionist's Gambit resolved aren't required to attack in the additional combat phase, although they may. Those creatures can attack you or a planeswalker you control.
  • If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack, the player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack.
  • If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or hasn't been under that player's control continuously since the turn began (and doesn't have haste), then it doesn't attack.

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    Cardmarket 0.29 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.36 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step on an opponent's turn. Remove all attacking creatures from combat and untap them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Each of those creatures attacks that combat if able. They can't attack you or planeswalkers you control that combat.

    Mirror Match #13 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 6
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    Copy

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  • A token created by Mirror Match will be blocking the creature it’s copying even if that creature can’t be blocked or has an ability that would stop the token creature from blocking it (such as menace or protection). This is also true even if the token creature has an ability that would stop it from being declared as a blocker.
  • Although the tokens enter the battlefield blocking, they were never declared as blockers. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature blocks won’t trigger. If there are any costs to have a creature block, those costs won’t apply to the tokens.
  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied creature will also work.
  • Each token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent 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, and so on.
  • If Mirror Match creates more than one token for any given attacking creature (due to an effect such as the one Doubling Season creates), each of those tokens will enter the battlefield blocking the creature it’s a copy of. All of those tokens will be exiled by the delayed triggered ability.
  • If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
  • If the copied creature is a token, the token created by Mirror Match copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put the token onto the battlefield.
  • If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
  • If the tokens aren’t creatures (perhaps because the attacking creature was an animated land), they’ll enter the battlefield but they won’t be blocking. Attacking creatures that weren’t otherwise blocked will remain unblocked.
  • The delayed triggered ability that exiles the tokens will trigger at end of combat no matter what happens to the original creature.

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    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.33 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.26 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. For each creature attacking you or a planeswalker you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature and that's blocking that creature. Exile those tokens at end of combat.

    Turn the Tide #30 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Only creatures your opponents control when Turn the Tide resolves are affected. Creatures that enter later in the turn are not.

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    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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    Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn.