Best Mono-Blue budget alternatives to Donate
Donate
$14.42 MarketCard Breakdown: Donate (Sorcery) acts as a key Versatile Deck Staple in competitive and casual EDH / Modern formats. At $14.42, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve comparable game effects for under $5.00.
Top Vector-Ranked Budget Swaps
Wrong Turn
(Instant)
Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)
Functions as a Instant alternative to Donate's Sorcery and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #donate, #multiple-targets.
Switcheroo
(Sorcery)
Exchange control of two target creatures.
Matches Donate's Sorcery card type and costs 2 more mana to cast (5 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #multiple-targets.
Tempted by the Oriq
(Sorcery)
For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls with mana value 3 or less.
Matches Donate's Sorcery card type and costs 1 more mana to cast (4 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #multiple-targets.
Roiling Waters
(Sorcery)
Return up to two target creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands. Target player draws two cards.
Matches Donate's Sorcery card type and costs 4 more mana to cast (7 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #multiple-targets.
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