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"Find me cards equivalent to: Stronghold Machinist"

Cards equivalent to Stronghold Machinist (blue wizard that counters noncreature spells):
1. Glen Elendra Archmage – Can counter noncreature spells by sacrificing itself.
2. Voidmage Prodigy – Also a blue wizard, counters spells by sacrificing a wizard.
3. Sirens' Ruse (not a direct counter, but can save a wizard for repeatability).
4. Errant Ephemeron (not a direct equivalent, but shares suspend and is a blue wizard).


Reason: All suggestions are blue, involve wizards, and interact with spells or countering, similar to Stronghold Machinist.

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Errant Ephemeron

Glen Elendra Archmage

Stronghold Machinist

Voidmage Prodigy

Errant Ephemeron #60 Creature — Illusion

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Info

Color:
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Cost:
Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 7
Power/Toughness: 4/4
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Illusion
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Suspend

    Rules

  • A creature cast using suspend will enter the battlefield with haste. It will have haste until another player gains control of it. (In some rare cases, another player may gain control of the creature spell itself. If this happens, the creature won't enter the battlefield with haste.)
  • Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.
  • Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.
  • If the 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 the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.
  • If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.
  • Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.
  • The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.
  • When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.
  • You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

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    Cardmarket / 0.44 EUR 0.03 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD
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    Legalities

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    Text

    Flying Suspend 4— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a timecounter When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

    Glen Elendra Archmage #2171 Creature — Faerie Wizard

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Faerie
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    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.

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    Cardmarket 15.27 EUR / 18.65 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

    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.)

    Stronghold Machinist #46 Creature — Human Spellshaper

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    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Spellshaper
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

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    Cardkingdom / 7.99 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR / 2.74 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.23 USD / 7.19 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 2.9 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , ,Discarda card:Countertarget noncreature spell.

    Voidmage Prodigy #120 Creature — Human Wizard

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Morph

    Rules

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    Cardmarket / 24.69 EUR 2.13 EUR
    Tcgplayer 2.4 USD / 22.25 USD
    Cardkingdom / 29.99 USD 2.99 USD
    Manapool 1.27 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel 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.)