Best Colorless budget alternatives to Buster Sword
Buster Sword
$45.82 MarketCard Breakdown: Buster Sword (Artifact — Equipment) is a high-demand MTG card. At $45.82, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve similar game actions for under $5.00.
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Doc Ock's Tentacles
(Artifact — Equipment)
Whenever a creature you control with mana value 5 or greater enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equipped creature gets +4/+4. Equip {5}
Matches Buster Sword's Artifact card type and costs 2 less mana to cast (1 MV vs 3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #mana-value-matters, #triggered-ability.
Rogue's Gloves
(Artifact — Equipment)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Matches Buster Sword's Artifact card type and costs 1 less mana to cast (2 MV vs 3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #curiosity, #repeatable-pure-draw.
Screaming Shield
(Artifact — Equipment)
Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has "{2}, {T}: Target player mills three cards." Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Matches Buster Sword's Artifact card type and costs 2 less mana to cast (1 MV vs 3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability.
Mask of Memory
(Artifact — Equipment)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Matches Buster Sword's Artifact card type and costs 1 less mana to cast (2 MV vs 3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #curiosity, #triggered-ability.
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