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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Delusions of Mediocrity

Equivalent cards to Delusions of Mediocrity (Blue, life-gain, drawback when it leaves):
1. Reverse the Sands (White, life total swap—not exact, but impactful life change)
2. Phyrexian Unlife (White, prevents you from losing to 0 or less life—leaves you vulnerable upon removal)
3. Alhammarret's Archive (Colorless, increases life gain, but not same effect)
4. Sanguine Bond (Black, cares about gaining life, not about losing it)

Closest in blue:

  • Delusions of Grandeur (Blue, gain 20 life, sacrifice triggers lose 20 life; most direct equivalent, much closer than any other)


Reason: Delusions of Grandeur is almost identical in both effect and drawback, including the leave-the-battlefield trigger. The others are thematically similar but not close mechanically.

Results:

Alhammarret's Archive #221 Legendary Artifact

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 5
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    Rules

  • Because Alhammarret’s Archive is legendary, it’s unlikely that one player will control two. However, if that happens, life gained by that player will be multiplied by four. Three Archives will multiply that life gain by eight, and so on.
  • If an effect would set your life total to a specific number that’s higher than your current life total, that effect would cause you to gain life equal to the difference. Alhammarret’s Archive will then double the amount of life that effect would cause you to gain. For example, if you have 3 life and an effect says that your life total “becomes 10,” your life total will actually become 17.
  • If two or more replacement effects would apply to a card-drawing event, the player drawing the card chooses the order in which to apply them.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, only the controller of Alhammarret’s Archive is affected by it. If that player’s teammate gains life, Alhammarret’s Archive will have no effect, even when that life gain is applied to the team’s shared life total.
  • Similarly, the effects of the last abilities of multiple Archives are cumulative. If you control two, you’ll draw four times the number of cards, and so on.

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    Tcgplayer 14.32 USD / 46.65 USD
    Cardmarket 12.07 EUR / 25.94 EUR
    Cardsphere 15.54 USD

    Legalities

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

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    If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

    Delusions of Mediocrity #30 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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    Tcgplayer 0.83 USD / 18.74 USD
    Cardmarket 0.67 EUR / 12.69 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.73 USD

    Legalities

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

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    When this enchantment enters, you gain 10 life. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

    Phyrexian Unlife #1213 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Poison Counter

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  • If you’re at 0 or less life and Phyrexian Unlife leaves the battlefield, you’ll lose the game (unless some other effect is keeping you from losing).
  • If you’re at 0 or less life, you can’t pay any amount of life except 0.
  • Phyrexian Unlife won’t affect damage that reduces your life total from a positive number to 0 or less. For example, if you’re at 3 life and are dealt 5 damage, you’ll end up at -2 life. The next time you’re dealt damage, it will be dealt as though its source had infect.
  • You can still lose the game for other reasons, including having ten or more poison counters or drawing a card from a library with no cards in it.

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    Tcgplayer 7.96 USD

    Legalities

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

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    You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)

    Reverse the Sands #75 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 8
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  • You can’t split up a life total when you redistribute it. For example, suppose that in a two-player game your life total is 5 and your opponent’s life total is 15 when Reverse the Sands starts to resolve. You can choose to (a) leave the life totals as they are or (b) make your life total 15 and your opponent’s 5. You can’t choose to make your life total 20 and your opponent’s 0.
  • You choose which player gets which life total when the spell resolves.

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    Tcgplayer 0.38 USD
    Cardmarket 0.34 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.46 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)

    Sanguine Bond #1799 Enchantment

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    Converted Cost: 5
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    Rules

  • Sanguine Bond's ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Soul Warden or 8 life from Tendrils of Corruption.
  • If an ability triggers whenever an opponent loses life and causes you to gain life, such as the ability of Exquisite Blood, this will loop until either you win the game or a player takes an action to break the loop. If neither of these happen, the game ends in a draw.
  • If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something, that life is gained as one event and Sanguine Bond's ability triggers only once.
  • Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Sanguine Bond's ability will trigger twice and you may choose a different opponent for each trigger. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause Sanguine Bond's ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 12.21 USD
    Cardkingdom 10.99 USD
    Cardsphere 10.45 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

    Alhammarret's Archive Legendary Artifact Normal - ~$22.9

    Delusions of Mediocrity Enchantment Normal - ~$6.73

    Phyrexian Unlife Enchantment Normal - ~$7.96

    Reverse the Sands Sorcery Normal - ~$0.39

    Sanguine Bond Enchantment Normal - ~$11.22

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