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The Mimic.

A few years back our GM had us running through a forest when a massive rainstorm hit. We took refuge in an old cabin we had spotted hours earlier, but hadn't checked out. We fixed the hole in the roof and bedded down for the night. Unfortunately the bed, chair, back door, an old foot locker and an end table were all mimics.

We had APL of 8 and had a pretty powerful wizard. We lost our rogue, my Barbarian lost his +2 Keen great sword and we barely made it out alive.

Ended up having the wizard spam the cabin with fire balls when the rain stopped.

While I don't consider it cheap Volatile Vaporizer lvls 1,2 and 3 are great so you can heal your whole party with one potion or use that one potion of water breathing to keep everyone from drowning when the tunnel collapses and fills with water.

Others include.

Hand of the Mage (My casters and rogues always have this)
Ring of Invis
haversack/bag of holding

And my favorite magic item I've ever used

+2 Animated Shield Cloak (costs 9000gp overall)
It fit very thematically with my slayer since after activating the shield cloak ability I could animate it so I had a flowing cloak that protected me and left my hands free for TWF

Dire boars are sometimes used in stories.