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"Find me cards equivalent to: Gonti's Machinations"

Equivalent cards to Gonti's Machinations (Black Enchantment, life loss triggers, energy, or similar effects):
1. Font of Agonies – Also black, triggers on loss of life, accumulates counters, activated removal ability.
2. Vicious Shadows – Black/Red, punishes opponents for life events, deals damage.
3. Polluted Bonds – Black, enchantment, causes opponents to lose life, you gain life.


Reason: There are no other black enchantments that use energy and work exactly like Gonti's Machinations, but these have similar life loss/gain and enchantment effects in black.

Found Cards

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Font of Agonies

Gonti's Machinations

Polluted Bonds

Vicious Shadows

Font of Agonies #74s Enchantment

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 1
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • An effect that causes you to pay life uses the word “pay.” If an effect allows you to choose to lose life or to be dealt damage without using the word “pay,” you’re not paying life.
  • The first ability of Font of Agonies is a triggered ability, not an activated ability. It doesn’t allow you to pay life whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of paying life, such as with Blood Crypt’s ability.

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    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.21 USD
    Manapool 2.9 USD
    Cardmarket 1.41 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.79 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. , Remove four blood counters from this enchantment:Destroytarget creature.

    Gonti's Machinations #63 Enchantment

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    Color:
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Energy Reserve

    Rules

  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Gonti's Machinations's second ability causes the opposing team to lose a total of 6 life.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, damage and life loss happen to individual players, and the result affects the team's life total. Combat damage is assigned and dealt to specific players. If your teammate is dealt damage or otherwise loses life, Gonti's Machinations doesn't trigger, even though your life total went down.
  • The triggered ability gives you at most one energy counter each turn, regardless of how much life you lost.
  • Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
  • Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
  • If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
  • If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
  • Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
  • Some spells and abilities that give you {E} may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any {E}.
  • Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E}. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of {E} as the ability resolves.
  • Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E} describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
  • {E} is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

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    Cardmarket / 1.66 EUR 0.22 EUR
    Manapool / 6.06 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.28 USD / 6.33 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 4.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get . (You get an energycounter Damage causes loss of life.) Pay ,Sacrificethis enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

    Polluted Bonds #95 Enchantment

    Variations: v1 v2 v3
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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

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    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 54.88 EUR
    Tcgplayer 83.37 USD
    Manapool 82.05 USD
    Cardkingdom 84.99 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

    Vicious Shadows #119 Enchantment

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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • The number of cards in the targeted opponent’s hand is checked only when the ability resolves.
  • The player you target doesn’t have to be the controller of the creature that was put into a graveyard.

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    Cardmarket 1.2 EUR / 4.01 EUR
    Manapool / 3.12 USD 1.61 USD
    Cardkingdom / 5.99 USD 2.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 6.48 USD 1.9 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever a creature dies, you may have this enchantment deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.