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"Find me cards equivalent to: Dark Confidant"

Here are equivalent cards in black (B) with a similar effect to Dark Confidant:
1. Dark Confidant
(Original card, does exactly what you described.)
2. Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
Draws cards by paying energy and losing life, black, not exactly the same but similar.
3. Blood Scrivener
Lets you draw extra cards if you have no cards in hand; not identical, but similar function.
4. Asylum Visitor
Draws a card and loses life if both players have no cards in hand at upkeep.

None have the exact text and effect as Dark Confidant with the precise trigger, but these are the closest black creatures with a related ability. Dark Confidant remains the most direct example.

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Asylum Visitor

Blood Scrivener

Dark Confidant

Glint-Sleeve Siphoner

Asylum Visitor #99 Creature — Vampire Wizard

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Color:
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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 3/1
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vampire
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Madness

    Rules

  • Asylum Visitor's triggered ability checks the active player's hand as the upkeep begins and as the trigger resolves. If that player has a card in hand as it resolves, you won't draw a card or lose 1 life. Notably, if you control multiple Asylum Visitors during your upkeep, whichever one's first ability resolves first will stop the other's first ability from having any effect unless you have a way to get the card you drew out of your hand before it resolves.
  • On an opponent's turn, triggered abilities you control will resolve before any triggered abilities of permanents that opponent controls if they trigger at the same time. This means that if you and your opponent each control an Asylum Visitor during your opponent's upkeep, and they have no cards in hand, you'll always draw a card before your opponent has a card in their hand.
  • The upkeep step is before the draw step, after the untap step. Asylum Visitor's first ability will trigger and resolve before the active player draws a card in their draw step if that player has no cards in hand.
  • A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
  • A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.
  • Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.
  • Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.
  • If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.
  • If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
  • If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
  • Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

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    Legalities

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    Text

    At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Madness (If youdiscardthis card,discardit into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

    Blood Scrivener #22 Creature — Zombie Wizard

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Any time you are instructed to draw more than one card, you draw them one at a time. For example, if you control Blood Scrivener and have no cards in hand and you’re instructed to “draw two cards,” your first card draw is replaced by drawing two cards and losing 1 life, then you’ll draw the second card from the original instruction. In total, you’ll draw three cards and lose 1 life.
  • Each additional Blood Scrivener you control will effectively add one card and 1 life lost. Say you control two Blood Scriveners and would draw a card while you have no cards in hand. The effect of one Blood Scrivener will replace the event “draw a card” with “draw two cards and lose 1 life.” The effect of the other Blood Scrivener will replace the drawing of the first of those two cards with “draw two cards and lose 1 life.” You’ll draw two cards and lose 1 life, then draw another card and lose another 1 life.

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

    Dark Confidant #94s aka. Bob Creature — Human Wizard

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.

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    At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

    Glint-Sleeve Siphoner #62 Creature — Human Rogue

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Energy Reserve

    Abilities/Keywords

    Menace

    Rules

  • The first triggered ability triggers both when Glint-Sleeve Siphoner enters the battlefield and whenever it attacks. You don't have to choose only one.
  • 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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    Legalities

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

    Text

    Menace Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you get (an energy counter). At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.