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"Find me cards equivalent to: Training Grounds"

Equivalent cards to Training Grounds (blue, reduces activated ability costs) are:

  • Biomancer's Familiar (green/blue): Reduces activated ability costs by 2 mana, but only for creatures you control.
  • Heartstone (colorless): Reduces activated ability costs of all creatures by 1, but is available to all colors.


Reason: These cards also reduce activated ability costs, aligning with Training Grounds' effect and color identity.

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Biomancer's Familiar

Heartstone

Training Grounds

Biomancer's Familiar #158s Creature — Mutant

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 2/2
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  • Creature
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  • Mutant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Biomancer’s Familiar.
  • An ability that has only one generic mana and some amount of other mana symbols in its activation cost will have its cost reduced by {1}.
  • Biomancer’s Familiar affects only abilities of creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of creature cards that work in other zones (such as cycling) won’t be reduced.
  • The last ability of Biomancer’s Familiar doesn’t add or remove any counters. It just lets the creature adapt despite already having +1/+1 counters on it.

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    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 13.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 17.15 USD
    Cardmarket 2.58 EUR
    Manapool 18.74 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. : The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.

    Heartstone #STH-134 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • It will never reduce any colored mana portion of an activation cost.
  • It will not add a {1} to abilities with no generic mana in their activation cost.
  • The cost reduction can be applied to additional costs.
  • Can’t reduce Snow mana costs.
  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 2.25 USD
    Tcgplayer 2.17 USD
    Cardkingdom 2.99 USD
    Cardmarket 2.01 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

    Training Grounds #20 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Training Grounds won't affect a cost that isn't the cost to activate a creature's activated ability. For example, it won't affect Flameblast Dragon's {X}{R} cost, since that's a cost paid when a triggered ability resolves, and it won't affect a kicker cost, since that's an additional cost to cast a spell. Activated ability costs appear before a colon (:) in a card's rules text, or, in the case of some keywords, before a colon in reminder text.
  • If an activated ability of a creature you control costs no generic mana to activate (for example, if it costs {R}{R}, it costs {0}, or it costs only nonmana actions such as {T} or "Sacrifice a creature"), Training Grounds simply won't affect it. In particular, it won't increase the cost to include a mana payment of {1}.
  • Training Grounds affects only creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities that work in other zones (such as cycling or unearth) won't be reduced.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the amount you pay for a creature's activated ability cost that includes {X}. For example, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief has an activated ability that costs {X}{B}{B}. If you control Training Grounds and you activate the ability with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{B}{B}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana, as Crimson Hellkite's ability does.
  • Training Grounds can reduce the part of an activation cost represented by generic mana symbols down to nothing, as long as it still costs at least one mana. For example, if an activation cost is {2}{G}, you'd have to pay only {G}. If an activation cost is {2}, though, you'd still have to pay {1}.
  • Training Grounds reduces the generic mana in waterbend costs for activated abilities. It will not reduce waterbend costs that are additional costs for casting spells.
  • Training Grounds takes the total cost to activate a creature's activated ability into account, not just the cost printed on it. For example, Urabrask has an activated ability that costs {R}, and Suppression Field says "Activated abilities cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities." Since activating Urabrask's activated ability would now cost {2}{R}, Training Grounds reduces that cost back to {R}.
  • Training Grounds won't affect the part of an activation cost represented by colored mana symbols or snow mana symbols. It also won't affect nonmana parts of an activation cost, if there are any.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 7.99 USD 6.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 5.07 USD / 7.2 USD
    Manapool 4.88 USD / 8.28 USD
    Cardmarket 3.75 EUR / 4.06 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.