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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Stronghold Biologist

Equivalent cards to Stronghold Biologist (Blue creature with tap ability to counter spells, usually limited to creatures or instants):
1. Voidmage Prodigy – Allows you to counter target instant or sorcery by sacrificing a Wizard.
2. Glen Elendra Archmage – Can counter noncreature spells by sacrificing itself (blue control on a creature).
3. Magus of the Unseen – Blue, manipulates control of artifacts, less direct, but fits disruptive wizard archetype.


Reason: All are blue, interact with spells or permanents via tap/activated abilities, and are Wizards.

Results:

Glen Elendra Archmage #115 Creature — Faerie Wizard

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Faerie
  • Wizard
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Persist

    Rules

  • If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
  • If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
  • If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they'll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.
  • If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can't return to the battlefield.
  • If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player's persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player's persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.
  • The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.
  • When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 71.8 USD
    Cardmarket 43.57 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying ,Sacrificethis creature:Countertarget noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1counteron it.)

    Magus of the Unseen #82 Creature — Human Wizard

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Rules

  • The artifact taps after returning to the opponent (if it is not already tapped), so any abilities triggered off it tapping happen at that time.
  • You may target an untapped artifact with this ability.
  • The artifact will gain haste whether or not it’s a creature. Of course, if it’s not a creature, haste will have no particular effect.
  • You tap the artifact when you lose control of it for any reason — because Magus of the Unseen’s effect ends, or because a spell or ability causes another player to gain control of it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.18 USD
    Cardmarket 0.63 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.93 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , : Untap target artifact an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the artifact, tap it.

    Stronghold Biologist #45 Creature — Human Spellshaper

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Spellshaper
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.23 USD / 2.48 USD
    Cardmarket 0.1 EUR / 3.22 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.28 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , ,Discarda card:Countertarget creature spell.

    Voidmage Prodigy #120 Creature — Human Wizard

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Tokens:
    Morph

    Abilities/Keywords

    Morph

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.51 USD / 12.02 USD
    Cardmarket 1.1 EUR / 12.31 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD / 22.99 USD
    Cardsphere 1.78 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    ,Sacrificea Wizard:Countertarget spell. Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

    Glen Elendra Archmage Creature — Faerie Wizard Normal - ~$57.69

    Magus of the Unseen Creature — Human Wizard Normal - ~$0.91

    Stronghold Biologist Creature — Human Spellshaper Normal - ~$1.38

    Voidmage Prodigy Creature — Human Wizard Normal - ~$7.64

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