Best Mono-Blue budget alternatives to Expropriate
Expropriate
$14.91 MarketCard Breakdown: Expropriate (Sorcery) acts as a key Versatile Deck Staple in competitive and casual EDH / Modern formats. At $14.91, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve comparable game effects for under $5.00.
Top Vector-Ranked Budget Swaps
Truth or Dare
(Sorcery)
Target opponent chooses one — • Truth — That player plays with their hand revealed for the rest of the game. • Dare — Mill all but the bottom ten cards of that player's library. (To mill, put the top card of that library into its owner's graveyard.)
Matches Expropriate's Sorcery card type and costs 6 less mana to cast (3 MV vs 9 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #untracked-indefinite-effect.
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 Expropriate's Sorcery card type and costs 5 less mana to cast (4 MV vs 9 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #per-player, #untracked-indefinite-effect.
Step Between Worlds
(Sorcery)
Each player may shuffle their hand and graveyard into their library. Each player who does draws seven cards. Exile Step Between Worlds. Plot {4}{U}{U} (You may pay {4}{U}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Matches Expropriate's Sorcery card type and costs 4 less mana to cast (5 MV vs 9 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #exile-on-resolution.
Extract Power
(Sorcery)
Look at the top card of each player's library, then exile those cards face down. You may play them without paying their mana costs for as long as they remain exiled.
Matches Expropriate's Sorcery card type and costs 3 less mana to cast (6 MV vs 9 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #per-player.
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