Best Colorless budget alternatives to Powder Keg
Powder Keg
$74.47 MarketCard Breakdown: Powder Keg (Artifact) is a high-demand MTG card. At $74.47, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve similar game actions for under $5.00.
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Ratchet Bomb
(Artifact)
{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.
Matches Powder Keg's Artifact card type and shares the exact same mana value (2 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #mana-value-matters, #removal-destroy.
Lotus Blossom
(Artifact)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.
Matches Powder Keg's Artifact card type and shares the exact same mana value (2 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #triggered-ability.
Urn of Godfire
(Artifact)
{2}: Add one mana of any color. {6}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target creature or enchantment.
Matches Powder Keg's Artifact card type and costs 1 less mana to cast (1 MV vs 2 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #removal-creature, #removal-destroy.
Gremlin Mine
(Artifact)
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 4 damage to target artifact creature. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Remove up to four charge counters from target noncreature artifact.
Matches Powder Keg's Artifact card type and costs 1 less mana to cast (1 MV vs 2 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability.
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