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"Find me cards equivalent to: Unstable Footing"

Equivalent cards to Unstable Footing (Red instants that stop damage prevention or deal damage with similar effects) include:

  • Skullcrack: Instant, R, Damage can't be prevented this turn, deals 2 damage to a player.
  • Roiling Vortex: (Not an instant, but similar effect as enchantment; prevents life gain and punishes certain spells)
  • Sudden Shock: Instant, R, deals 2 damage, split second (can’t be countered), but doesn't prevent damage prevention.


Reason: Skullcrack is the closest direct match in red instants for damage can't be prevented and burn, as found in Unstable Footing.

Found Cards

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Roiling Vortex

Skullcrack

Sudden Shock

Unstable Footing

Roiling Vortex #1958 Enchantment

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Converted Cost: 2
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    Rules

  • Activating Roiling Vortex’s last ability won’t undo any life gained before it resolved.
  • An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Roiling Vortex’s first ability triggers twice during each team’s upkeep. Each instance deals 1 damage to one of the players on that team.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket / 3.92 EUR 2.91 EUR
    Manapool 3.85 USD / 4.01 USD
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 3.14 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them. Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player. : Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

    Skullcrack #341 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Rules

  • Effects that would replace gaining life with another effect won't apply because it's impossible for players to gain life.
  • If an effect says to set a player's life total to a certain number and that number is higher than the player's current life total, that part of the effect won't do anything. (If the number is lower than the player's current life total, the effect will work as normal.)
  • Skullcrack targets only the player or planeswalker. If that player or planeswalker is an illegal target when Skullcrack tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
  • Spells and abilities that would cause a player to gain life or that would prevent damage still resolve, but the life-gain and damage-prevention parts have no effect.

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    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.44 EUR 0.32 EUR
    Manapool 0.22 USD / 0.41 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.7 USD 0.3 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

    Sudden Shock #179 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • After a spell with split second resolves (or otherwise leaves the stack), players may again cast spells and activate abilities before the next object on the stack resolves.
  • Casting a spell with split second won't affect spells and abilities that are already on the stack.
  • If the resolution of a triggered ability involves casting a spell, that spell can't be cast if a spell with split second is on the stack.
  • Players may turn face-down creatures face up while a spell with split second is on the stack.
  • Players still get priority while a card with split second is on the stack; their options are just limited to mana abilities and certain special actions.
  • Split second doesn't stop triggered abilities from triggering, such as that of Chalice of the Void. If one does, its controller puts it on the stack and chooses targets for it, if any. Those abilities will resolve as normal.

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    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.18 USD / 0.48 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.19 EUR 0.15 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.56 USD / 0.84 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

    Unstable Footing #153 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Kicker

    Rules

  • Effects that replace or redirect damage without using the word "prevent" are not affected by Unstable Footing.
  • If Unstable Footing is kicked and the targeted player is an illegal target by the time it resolves, the entire spell doesn't resolve. Damage can still be prevented.
  • If a creature is dealt lethal damage, it can still regenerate. If it does, the damage marked on it will be removed from it.
  • If damage can't be prevented, damage prevention shields don't have any effect. If a prevention effect has an additional effect, the additional effect will still work (if possible). Spells that create prevention effects can still be cast, and abilities that create prevention effects can still be activated.
  • If damage can't be prevented, static abilities that prevent damage (including protection abilities) don't do so. If they have additional effects that don't depend on the amount of damage prevented, those additional effects will still work. Such effects are applied only once per source of damage.
  • Unstable Footing's effect causes damage from all sources to be unpreventable, not just damage from Unstable Footing itself.
  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR / 0.61 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 0.79 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.59 USD 0.07 USD
    Manapool / 0.25 USD 0.15 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Damage can't be prevented this turn. If this spell was kicked, it deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.