Best Colorless budget alternatives to Takara
Takara
$14.69 MarketCard Breakdown: Takara (Vanguard) acts as a key Versatile Deck Staple in competitive and casual EDH / Modern formats. At $14.69, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve comparable game effects for under $5.00.
Top Vector-Ranked Budget Swaps
Fodder Cannon
(Artifact)
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 4 damage to target creature.
Functions as a Artifact alternative to Takara's Vanguard and costs 4 more mana to cast (4 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #bombard, #repeatable-crime.
Doom Cannon
(Artifact)
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature of the chosen type: This artifact deals 3 damage to any target.
Functions as a Artifact alternative to Takara's Vanguard and costs 6 more mana to cast (6 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #bombard, #burn-any.
Mortarpod
(Artifact — Equipment)
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 1 damage to any target." Equip {2}
Functions as a Artifact alternative to Takara's Vanguard and costs 2 more mana to cast (2 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #activated-ability, #bombard, #burn-any.
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