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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Seize the Initiative

Equivalent cards to Seize the Initiative (White):

  • Gods Willing – Similar instant-speed protection, adds scry instead of a counter.
  • Ajani's Presence – Instant with +1/+1 and indestructible instead of first strike.
  • Emerge Unscathed – Protection from color at instant speed, can rebound.
  • Feign Death (if looking for 1-mana white options, this is black, but for white, try Ephemerate for protection by flickering).


Reason: These all offer instant-speed protection and/or combat tricks for one mana, fitting Mono-White playstyles.

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Ajani's Presence #2 Instant

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  • If a spell or ability allows you to cast a strive spell without paying its mana cost, you must pay the additional costs for any targets beyond the first.
  • If all of the spell's targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. If one or more of its targets are legal when it tries to resolve, the spell will resolve and affect only those legal targets. It will have no effect on any illegal targets.
  • If such a spell is copied, and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. The player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, the player can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • The mana cost and mana value of strive spells don't change no matter how many targets they have. Strive abilities affect only what you pay.
  • You choose how many targets each spell with a strive ability has and what those targets are as you cast it. It's legal to cast such a spell with no targets, although this is rarely a good idea. You can't choose the same target more than once for a single strive spell.

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    Tcgplayer 0.1 USD / 0.73 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.73 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.19 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first. Any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don'tdestroythem.)

    Emerge Unscathed #20 Instant

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    Rebound

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  • 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.
  • You choose the color as Emerge Unscathed resolves. Once you choose a color, it’s too late for players to respond.

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    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD / 1.32 USD
    Cardmarket 0.27 EUR / 2.03 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD / 3.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.33 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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 gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. 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.)

    Ephemerate #68 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rebound

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  • Casting the card again due to rebound's delayed triggered ability is optional. If you choose not to cast the card, or if you can't (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the card will stay exiled. You won't get another chance to cast it on a future turn. If you do cast the card, it's put into its owner's graveyard as normal once it resolves.
  • If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand is countered or doesn't resolve (most likely because its targets have become illegal), none of its effects will happen, including rebound. The spell will be put into its owner's graveyard and you won't get to cast it again on your next turn.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.
  • Once the exiled creature returns, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.

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    Tcgplayer 19.72 USD 33.92 USD 17.64 USD
    Cardmarket 19.88 EUR / 37.19 EUR
    Cardkingdom 19.99 USD 37.99 USD 17.99 USD
    Cardsphere 21.32 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. 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.)

    Feign Death #103 Instant

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    Tcgplayer 0.72 USD / 1.23 USD
    Cardmarket 1.06 EUR / 1.4 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.86 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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 "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1counteron it."

    Gods Willing #7 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Converted Cost: 1
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    Scry

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  • Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability's targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't scry.
  • When you scry, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards on the bottom of your library, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them on the bottom.
  • You choose how to order cards returned to your library after scrying no matter where you put them.
  • You choose the color as Gods Willing resolves. Once the color is chosen, it's too late for players to respond.
  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, that means you'll scry last. For others, that means you'll scry and then perform other actions.
  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Gods Willing tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You won't scry 1. If the target creature becomes an illegal target while Gods Willing is resolving (most likely because you gave it protection from white), you do scry 1.
  • You can't choose "artifact" or "colorless" as Gods Willing asks you to choose a color because those are not colors.

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    Tcgplayer 0.23 USD 0.61 USD 1.87 USD
    Cardmarket 0.58 EUR / 1.09 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD 0.99 USD 0.69 USD
    Cardsphere 0.37 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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 gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.) Scry 1.

    Seize the Initiative #20 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • A creature that gains first strike after other creatures with first strike or double strike deal combat damage in the first combat damage step will still deal damage in the second combat damage step.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.04 USD / 0.2 USD
    Cardmarket 0.1 EUR / 0.2 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.19 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.

    Ajani's Presence Instant Normal - ~$0.46

    Emerge Unscathed Instant Normal - ~$1.18

    Ephemerate Instant Normal - ~$25.07

    Feign Death Instant Normal - ~$1.18

    Gods Willing Instant Normal - ~$0.77

    Seize the Initiative Instant Normal - ~$0.22

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