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"Find me cards equivalent to: Gandalf's Sanction"

Equivalents to Gandalf's Sanction (Red/Blue, Sorcery, scales with graveyard instants/sorceries):
1. Banefire (R): Sorcery, scales with X, deals damage to any target.
2. Crackle with Power (R): Sorcery, scalable X damage to any target.
3. Sling of the Outrider (R): Calculates damage based on graveyard instants/sorceries, but not same excess damage effect.
4. Erratic Explosion (R): Sorcery, deals damage based on revealed card.
5. Mind's Desire (U): Not direct damage, but interacts with instants/sorceries in graveyard.

Closest in effect: Banefire, but none are identical to dealing excess damage to controller based on graveyard count. No direct blue or blue-red equivalent with all effects. Searched card: Gandalf's Sanction.


Reason: Few sorceries scale damage based on graveyard and excess damage to the controller.

Found Cards

5 Results

Banefire

Crackle with Power

Erratic Explosion

Gandalf's Sanction

Mind's Desire

Banefire #130s Sorcery

Variations: v1 v2
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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 1
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • Banefire can be targeted by spells that try to counter it regardless of what the value of X is. If X is 5 or more, those spells will still resolve, but the part of their effect that would counter Banefire won’t do anything. Any other effects those spells have will work as normal.
  • If its target is illegal by the time Banefire tries to resolve, the spell isn’t countered, but it doesn’t resolve. The target won’t be dealt damage.
  • To determine whether it can be countered and its damage can be prevented, Banefire checks the number you chose for X, not the amount of mana you actually spent or the amount of damage it will actually deal.

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    Cardmarket 1.95 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD
    Manapool 3.29 USD
    Tcgplayer 5.86 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

    Crackle with Power #2769 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • If you choose 1 for the value of X, Crackle with Power will cost {3}{R}{R} to cast and deal five damage to a single target. If you choose 2 for the value of X, it will cost {6}{R}{R} to cast and deal ten damage to each of up to two targets, and so on.

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    Text

    Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

    Erratic Explosion #201 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • If all your cards are lands, no damage is dealt.

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    Cardkingdom / 2.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer / 2.12 USD 0.19 USD
    Cardmarket 0.15 EUR / 1.89 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

    Gandalf's Sanction #208 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Excess damage caused by a spell or ability is similar to how combat damage from a creature with trample is handled. Start with the amount of damage being dealt to the creature and determine what is "lethal." This is the creature's toughness minus the amount of damage that it already has marked on it, but ignoring any replacement or prevention effects that will modify this damage. Also ignore whether the creature has an ability such as indestructible that will result in it not being destroyed by this damage.
  • Gandalf's Sanction is not yet in your graveyard when you determine the value of X.
  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Gandalf's Sanction tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. It won't deal damage to any player.
  • Once you've determined how much damage is excess, Gandalf's Sanction simultaneously deals damage to the creature and to its controller. This damage may be modified by replacement or prevention effects.

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    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.25 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.39 USD 0.23 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.39 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Gandalf's Sanction deals X damage to target creature, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

    Mind's Desire #80 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Storm

    Rules

  • If the card is not played by end of turn, it remains exiled until end of game.
  • The card is face-up when exiled.
  • A copy of a spell can be countered like any other spell, but it must be countered individually. Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies.
  • Spells cast from zones other than a player's hand and spells that were countered are counted by the storm ability.
  • The copies are put directly onto the stack. They aren't cast and won't be counted by other spells with storm cast later in the turn.
  • The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack.

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    Cardkingdom 11.99 USD 29.99 USD 13.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 11.96 USD 18.21 USD 12.31 USD
    Cardmarket 16.09 EUR / 9.44 EUR
    Manapool 9.15 USD 9.15 USD 14.58 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)