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"Find me cards equivalent to: Lead by Example"

Equivalent Lead by Example cards (Instant, Green, +1/+1 counters):
1. Hardened Scales (Enchantment, not instant, but enhances +1/+1 counters)
2. Blossoming Defense (+2/+2 & hexproof, but only one creature)
3. Invigorate (+4/+4 to one, not identical effect)
4. Scale Up (Sorcery, not instant)
5. Become Immense (Instant, single target)

Direct green instants that put +1/+1 counters on multiple creatures are rare; Lead by Example is quite unique. Closest match: Strength in Numbers gives +X/+X till end-of-turn.

Best alternative: Vastwood Surge (kicker, puts two +1/+1 counters on each of two creatures, but is a sorcery). There is no direct instant with exactly this effect, but Lead by Example is the closest option.

Found Cards

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Become Immense

Blossoming Defense

Hardened Scales

Invigorate

Lead by Example

Scale Up

Strength in Numbers

Vastwood Surge

Become Immense #157 Instant

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    Abilities/Keywords

    Delve

    Rules

  • Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
  • Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
  • You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

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    Manapool 0.23 USD / 0.39 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.57 EUR 0.31 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.19 USD / 0.4 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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    Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .) Target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.

    Blossoming Defense #167 Instant

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    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.32 USD 0.33 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR / 0.3 EUR
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    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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    Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

    Hardened Scales #2365 Enchantment

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  • Each additional Hardened Scales you control will increase the number of +1/+1 counters placed on a creature you control by one.
  • If a creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it, it enters with that many plus one instead.
  • If two or more effects attempt to modify how many counters would be put on a creature you control, you choose the order to apply those effects, no matter who controls the sources of those effects.

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    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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    If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

    Invigorate #19 Instant

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  • If an effect says that an opponent can't gain life, you can't have that player gain life to pay Invigorate's alternative cost. If an effect instead replaces life gain, such as that of Sulfuric Vortex, you may choose to pay the cost even though the cost's action is replaced with nothing.
  • 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 Invigorate), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Cardmarket 0.31 EUR
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    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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    If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life. Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

    Lead by Example #205 Instant

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    Abilities/Keywords

    Support

    Rules

  • If a spell with support has other abilities that target creatures, those abilities and the support ability can target the same creature.
  • Support can target a creature you don’t control.
  • You can’t put more than one +1/+1 counter on any one target using the support action.

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    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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    Support 2. (Put a +1/+1counteron each of up to two target creatures.)

    Scale Up #MH1-179 Sorcery

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    Overload

    Rules

  • Effects that modify the affected creatures' power or toughness (such as the effects of Force of Virtue or Giant Growth) will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creatures' power or toughness (such as +1/+1 counters).
  • Scale Up overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures' color, creature types, power, and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after Scale Up resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.
  • The affected creatures don't lose any abilities when they become Wurms.
  • Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
  • If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.
  • If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.36 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.5 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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    Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a green Wurm with base power and toughness 6/4. Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

    Strength in Numbers #224 Instant

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  • The value of X is determined only as Strength in Numbers resolves. It won't change later in the turn if the number of attacking creatures changes.

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    Tcgplayer / 0.21 USD 0.14 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
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    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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    Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

    Vastwood Surge #217 Sorcery

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    Kicker

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  • If any abilities trigger when the lands are put onto the battlefield and Vastwood Surge was kicked, those abilities won't resolve until after you've put two +1/+1 counters on creatures you control.
  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.28 EUR
    Manapool 0.2 USD / 0.25 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.24 USD / 0.33 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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    Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, thenshuffle If this spell was kicked, put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.