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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Sly Instigator

Equivalent cards to Sly Instigator (blue, creature, grants goad or similar effects) include:

  • Geode Rager (red, but closest effect: goad)
  • Disrupt Decorum (red, goad all creatures, but not blue)
  • Spectral Delusionist (blue, can make creatures unblockable)
  • Charmed Pendant (not equivalent; ignore)

Closest blue options:

  • Cephalid Facetaker (blue, copies combat abilities, redirects aggression)
  • Fugitive Wizard (not equivalent, ignore)
  • Release to the Wind (blue, exiles creatures temporarily, can remove threats)
  • Mystic Subdual (blue, disables threats)

However, true blue goad effects are rare. Sly Instigator is unique for blue. Most goad effects are red. Blue usually grants unblockable or redirects attacks (e.g., Cephalid Facetaker).

Results:

Cephalid Facetaker #23 Creature — Octopus Rogue

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 1/4
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Octopus
  • Rogue
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.89 USD
    Cardmarket 2.67 EUR
    Cardkingdom 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 3.33 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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    This creature can't be blocked. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."

    Charmed Pendant #298 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • The ability is still a mana ability (and doesn’t use the stack) even though you can only activate it when you could cast an instant.
  • If you flip over a hybrid card, you get one of either color mana, not both, for each mana symbol.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.81 USD / 15.13 USD
    Cardmarket 0.72 EUR / 6.84 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD / 13.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.93 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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    ,Milla card: For each colored mana symbol in the milled card's mana cost, add one mana of that color. Activate only as an instant. (For example, if the card's mana cost is , you add .)

    Disrupt Decorum #215 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Goad

    Rules

  • Creatures that enter the battlefield after Disrupt Decorum resolves won't be goaded.
  • Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.
  • Being goaded isn't an ability the creature has. Once it's been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.
  • If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents that hasn't goaded it, as that fulfills the maximum number of goad requirements. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, the creature must attack an opponent (rather than a planeswalker or battle), but you choose which opponent it attacks.
  • If the creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent controls, or a player who goaded it.
  • If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that's been goaded 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. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack that player.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.04 USD / 1.81 USD
    Cardmarket 0.6 EUR / 1.09 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.95 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

    Text

    Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

    Fugitive Wizard #81 Creature — Human Wizard

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.03 USD / 0.14 USD
    Cardmarket 0.03 EUR / 0.12 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.19 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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    Geode Rager #144 Creature — Elemental

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 4/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elemental
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Goad

    Rules

  • Being goaded more than once by the same player is redundant.
  • Creatures that enter the battlefield or come under the target player's control after Geode Rager's ability has resolved won't be goaded.
  • If you leave the game, any creatures you've goaded remain goaded until your next turn would have begun. They don't immediately stop being goaded and don't remain goaded indefinitely.
  • Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.
  • Being goaded isn't an ability the creature has. Once it's been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.
  • If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents that hasn't goaded it, as that fulfills the maximum number of goad requirements. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, the creature must attack an opponent (rather than a planeswalker or battle), but you choose which opponent it attacks.
  • If the creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent controls, or a player who goaded it.
  • If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that's been goaded 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. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack that player.
  • A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
  • A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
  • Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them   on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.88 USD
    Cardmarket 0.51 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.71 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

    Text

    First strike Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, goad each creature target player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

    Mystic Subdual #57 Enchantment — Aura

    Info

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
  • Aura
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Enchant Flash

    Rules

  • If a creature has power and toughness written as */* with an ability that defines its power and toughness, its base power and toughness become 0/0 when it loses all abilities. Mystic Subdual then makes it a -2/0. If its power and toughness are written as */*+1, it’s -2/1, and so on.
  • If the affected creature gains an ability after Mystic Subdual becomes attached to it, it will keep that ability.
  • Mutating the enchanted creature won’t cause it to gain abilities. This is because mutate modifies the creature’s base characteristics, while Mystic Subdual applies to the resulting creature.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.1 USD / 0.17 USD
    Cardmarket 0.16 EUR / 0.23 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.22 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

    Text

    Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-0 and loses all abilities. (Mutating onto the creature won't give it new abilities. It can gain abilities in other ways.)

    Release to the Wind #46 Instant

    Info

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Rules

  • Casting the exiled card follows the normal timing rules for casting that card. For example, if the card is a creature card, you can cast that card only during your main phase while the stack is empty.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it can’t be cast.
  • If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Silvergill Adept, those must be paid to cast the card.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.61 USD / 3.08 USD
    Cardmarket 0.61 EUR / 2.45 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD / 3.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.7 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

    Text

    Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it without paying its mana cost.

    Sly Instigator #32 Creature — Human Wizard

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Goad

    Rules

  • If you leave the game, any creatures you've goaded remain goaded until your next turn would have begun. They don't immediately stop being goaded and don't remain goaded indefinitely.
  • Once a creature an opponent controls has been legally blocked, activating Sly Instigator's ability won't change or undo that block.
  • Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.
  • Being goaded isn't an ability the creature has. Once it's been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.
  • If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents that hasn't goaded it, as that fulfills the maximum number of goad requirements. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, the creature must attack an opponent (rather than a planeswalker or battle), but you choose which opponent it attacks.
  • If the creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent controls, or a player who goaded it.
  • If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that's been goaded 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. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack that player.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.18 USD
    Cardmarket 0.29 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.35 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

    Text

    , : Until your next turn, target creature an opponent controls can't be blocked. Goad that creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

    Cephalid Facetaker Creature — Octopus Rogue Normal - ~$4.65

    Charmed Pendant Artifact Normal - ~$5.69

    Disrupt Decorum Sorcery Normal - ~$2.64

    Fugitive Wizard Creature — Human Wizard Normal - ~$1.8

    Geode Rager Creature — Elemental Normal - ~$2.96

    Mystic Subdual Enchantment — Aura Normal - ~$1.84

    Release to the Wind Instant Normal - ~$2.89

    Sly Instigator Creature — Human Wizard Normal - ~$2.56

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