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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Bolas's Citadel

Equivalent cards to Bolas's Citadel in black:
1. Yawgmoth's Bargain – Lets you pay life to draw cards (similar resource exchange).
2. Ad Nauseam – Reveal cards and lose life per CMC, puts them in hand.
3. Aetherflux Reservoir – Non-black, but often used with Bolas's Citadel for combo.
4. Necropotence – Draw cards for life, another black engine.

All these exchange life for cards or spells, maintaining the same strategic function as Bolas's Citadel.

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Ad Nauseam #76 Instant

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  • Each time you put the revealed card into your hand and lose the appropriate amount of life, you decide whether to continue by revealing another card. You don't decide in advance how many cards to put into your hand this way.
  • If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • You may continue to reveal cards with Ad Nauseam even if your life total has been reduced to 0 or less. If you continue, you will continue to lose life, dropping your life total into negative numbers. As soon as you stop, you'll lose the game as a state-based action.

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    Tcgplayer 17.05 USD / 32.14 USD
    Cardmarket 8.73 EUR / 24.11 EUR
    Cardkingdom 22.99 USD / 44.99 USD
    Cardsphere 17.09 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

    Aetherflux Reservoir #192s Artifact

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  • Aetherflux Reservoir's first ability doesn't trigger when you cast Aetherflux Reservoir itself.
  • The first ability counts spells you cast earlier in the turn even if you didn't control Aetherflux Reservoir as you cast them, and even if those spells were countered.
  • The first ability counts the spell that caused it to trigger plus any other spells you cast earlier in the turn.
  • The number of spells you've cast is counted only as Aetherflux Reservoir's triggered ability resolves. For example, if you cast a spell, then respond to the triggered ability with a second spell, you'll gain 4 life total.

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    Tcgplayer 24.94 USD
    Cardmarket 11.78 EUR

    Legalities

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

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    Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

    Bolas's Citadel #1187 Legendary Artifact

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  • Bolas's Citadel lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.
  • Bolas's Citadel may be one of the permanents you sacrifice to activate its last ability.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can't look at the next one until you're done paying for that spell.
  • If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than pay its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Spark Harvest, those must be paid to cast the card.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, the last ability of Bolas's Citadel causes the opposing team to lose 20 life.
  • You can play a land card from the top of your library only if you have available land plays remaining.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the cards you play from your library.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 23.27 USD / 25.75 USD
    Cardmarket 11.75 EUR / 12.67 EUR
    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD / 27.99 USD
    Cardsphere 21.72 USD

    Legalities

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

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    You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. ,Sacrificeten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

    Necropotence #21 aka. Necro Enchantment

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  • If a discarded card isn't put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won't be exiled.
  • If you discard a card with madness and wish to cast it, Necropotence's ability won't exile that card. If you don't wish to cast it, you choose whether it ends up exiled or in your graveyard.
  • Necropotence's last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step.
  • You can't look at the cards exiled by the last ability while they're face down.

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

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    Skip your draw step. Whenever youdiscarda card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

    Yawgmoth's Bargain #75 Enchantment

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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 19.88 USD / 248.33 USD
    Cardmarket 7.72 EUR / 195.11 EUR
    Cardkingdom 12.99 USD / 379.99 USD
    Cardsphere 17.66 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: Draw a card.

    Ad Nauseam Instant Normal - ~$23.87

    Aetherflux Reservoir Artifact Normal - ~$18.36

    Bolas's Citadel Legendary Artifact Normal - ~$21.02

    Necropotence Enchantment Normal

    Yawgmoth's Bargain Enchantment Normal - ~$125.95

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