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"Find me cards equivalent to: Retrieve the Esper"

Here are equivalent cards to Retrieve the Esper in blue, sorcery, that create tokens or have flashback:
1. Deep Analysis

  • Sorcery, {3}{U}, Flashback {1}{U}
  • Draws cards instead of making tokens, but has flashback.
    2. Talrand's Invocation
  • Sorcery, {2}{U}{U}
  • Creates two 2/2 blue Drake creature tokens with flying.
    3. Serpentine Curve
  • Sorcery, {3}{U}
  • Creates a blue Fractal creature token with +1/+1 counters.
    4. Recurring Insight
  • Sorcery, {4}{U}{U}, Rebound (cast again next turn from exile)
  • Draws cards, shows repeatable spell pattern.

There is not an exact equivalent (token creation + flashback) in mono-blue, but Retrieve the Esper, Talrand's Invocation, and cards with flashback like Deep Analysis or temporary recursion like Recurring Insight are close.

Found Cards

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Deep Analysis

Recurring Insight

Retrieve the Esper

Serpentine Curve

Talrand's Invocation

Deep Analysis #94 aka. Deep Anal Sorcery

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 4
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flashback

    Rules

  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

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    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.24 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.12 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target player draws two cards. Flashback—, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

    Recurring Insight #82 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Rebound

    Rules

  • At the beginning of your upkeep, all delayed triggered abilities created by rebound effects trigger. You may handle them in any order. If you want to cast a card this way, you do so as part of the resolution of its delayed triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type (if it’s a sorcery) are ignored. Other restrictions are not (such as the one from Rule of Law).
  • If a replacement effect would cause a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand to be put somewhere else instead of your graveyard (such as Leyline of the Void might), you choose whether to apply the rebound effect or the other effect as the spell resolves.
  • If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand doesn’t resolve for any reason (due being countered by a spell like Cancel, or because all of its targets are illegal), rebound has no effect. The spell is simply put into your graveyard. You won’t get to cast it again next turn.
  • If you are unable to cast a card from exile this way, or you choose not to, nothing happens when the delayed triggered ability resolves. The card remains exiled for the rest of the game, and you won’t get another chance to cast the card. The same is true if the ability is countered (due to Stifle, perhaps).
  • If you cast a card from exile this way, it will go to your graveyard when it resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered. It won’t go back to exile.
  • If you cast a spell with rebound from anywhere other than your hand (such as from your graveyard due to Sins of the Past, from your library due to cascade, or from your opponent’s hand due to Sen Triplets), rebound won’t have any effect. If you do cast it from your hand, rebound will work regardless of whether you paid its mana cost (for example, if you cast it from your hand due to Maelstrom Archangel).
  • If you cast a spell with rebound from your hand and it resolves, it isn’t put into your graveyard. Rather, it’s exiled directly from the stack. Effects that care about cards being put into your graveyard won’t do anything.
  • Rebound will have no effect on copies of spells because you don’t cast them from your hand.

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    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.51 USD / 5.54 USD
    Manapool / 5.57 USD 0.52 USD
    Cardmarket / 4.55 EUR 1.13 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

    Retrieve the Esper #68 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Robot Warrior

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flashback

    Rules

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    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.09 EUR 0.04 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.12 USD 0.11 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Create a 3/3 blue Robot Warrior artifact creature token. Then if this spell was cast from a graveyard, put two +1/+1 counters on that token. Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

    Serpentine Curve #52 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Fractal

    Rules

  • If you own face-down cards in exile, they won’t count toward the value of X, even if you’re allowed to look at them and you know they are instant or sorcery cards.
  • Serpentine Curve itself is not yet in your graveyard when you determine the value of X.

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    Cardmarket 0.23 EUR / 0.21 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD / 0.13 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is one plus the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.

    Talrand's Invocation #M13-73 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Drake

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.17 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Create two 2/2 blue Drake creature tokens with flying.