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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Crime Novelist

Equivalent cards to Crime Novelist (a blue-black card that lets you draw if you've dealt damage and surveiled) are:
1. Nightsnare Prodigy (draws cards in Dimir colors after surveil triggers)
2. Thief of Sanity (Dimir; exiles cards from opponent’s deck on damage)
3. Specter of the Fens (has surveil and repeatable life drain)
4. Fallen Shinobi (draws/plays opponent’s cards when it deals damage)
5. Syphon Insight (draw/surveil, Dimir colors)

These keep to the draw, surveil, and damage themes in blue and black.

Results:

Crime Novelist #121 Creature — Goblin Bard

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 1/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Goblin
  • Bard
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.29 USD / 0.53 USD
    Cardmarket 0.5 EUR / 0.77 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.45 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever yousacrificean artifact, put a +1/+1counteron this creature and add .

    Fallen Shinobi #226 Creature — Zombie Ninja

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 5/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Ninja
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Ninjutsu

    Rules

  • Although the Ninja is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).
  • Any cards you don't cast will remain in exile.
  • As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja isn't put onto the battlefield until the ability resolves. If it leaves your hand before then, it won't enter the battlefield at all.
  • Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • Fallen Shinobi's triggered ability doesn't change when you can play the exiled cards. For example, if a sorcery card is exiled, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If a land card is exiled, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining.
  • If a creature in combat has first strike or double strike, you can activate the ninjutsu ability during the first-strike combat damage step. The Ninja will deal combat damage during the regular combat damage step, even if it has first strike.
  • The creature with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu; in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature's controller chooses which player or planeswalker it's attacking.
  • The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. If you wait until after the declare blockers step, because all combat damage is dealt at once, the Ninja won't normally deal combat damage.
  • The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.95 USD
    Cardmarket 1.84 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.29 USD
    Cardsphere 1.56 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Ninjutsu (, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top two cards of their library. Until end of turn, you may play those cards without paying their mana costs.

    Specter of the Fens #87 Creature — Specter

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Specter
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.06 USD / 0.03 USD
    Cardmarket 0.03 EUR / 0.02 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.14 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying : Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

    Thief of Sanity #243 Creature — Specter

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    Color:
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Specter
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
  • Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Thief of Sanity's effect are exiled, and any of the face-down exiled cards remain face down indefinitely. No player may look at them.
  • Thief of Sanity's effect doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • You can still cast the exiled card if Thief of Sanity leaves the battlefield or leaves your control. If another player gains control of Thief of Sanity, that player can't cast the exiled card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.22 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.22 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Crime Novelist Creature — Goblin Bard Normal - ~$0.62

    Fallen Shinobi Creature — Zombie Ninja Normal - ~$1.91

    Specter of the Fens Creature — Specter Normal - ~$0.16

    Thief of Sanity Creature — Specter Normal - ~$0.29

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