Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Brain in a Jar

2 · Artifact

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on Brain in a Jar, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Brain in a Jar from your hand without paying its mana cost. {3}, {T}, Remove X charge counters from Brain in a Jar: Scry X.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Dual Strike RRInstant When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 4 or less this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Foretell {R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Jetsam 4U/BU/BSorcery Each opponent mills three cards, then you may cast a spell from each opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Flood of Recollection UUSorcery Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Flood of Recollection.
Smelt-Ward Minotaur 2RCreature — Minotaur Warrior Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn. 2/3
Cosima, God of the Voyage 2ULegendary Creature — God At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile Cosima. If you do, it gains "Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if Cosima is exiled, you may put a voyage counter on it. If you don't, return Cosima to the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it and draw X cards, where X is the number of voyage counters on it." 2/4
Traveling Plague 3BBEnchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of each upkeep, put a plague counter on Traveling Plague. Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on Traveling Plague. When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller returns Traveling Plague from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield.
Tenth District Legionnaire RWCreature — Human Soldier Haste Whenever you cast a spell that targets Tenth District Legionnaire, put a +1/+1 counter on Tenth District Legionnaire, then scry 1. 2/2
Piston-Fist Cyclops 1U/RU/RCreature — Cyclops Defender As long as you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, Piston-Fist Cyclops can attack as though it didn't have defender. 4/3
Leonin Lightscribe 1WCreature — Cat Cleric Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. 2/2
Chthonian Nightmare 1BEnchantment When Chthonian Nightmare enters the battlefield, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return Chthonian Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Page 125