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"Find me cards equivalent to: Dihada's Ploy"

Equivalent cards to Dihada's Ploy (Instant, Blue/Black, card draw + discard effect) include:
1. Notion Rain – Sorcery, BU, Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you.
Reason: Two-mana base, card draw with a self-discard/surveil element, same color.
2. Discovery // Dispersal (Discovery side) – Sorcery, UB hybrid, Surveil 2, then draw a card.
Reason: Surveil into card draw, same color, similar effect.
3. Charter Course – Sorcery, U (not BU), Draw two cards, then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.
Reason: Nearly identical draw/discard, but lacks black and life gain/jump-start.
4. Thirst for Knowledge – Instant, 2U, Draw three cards, then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact.
Reason: Card draw/looting at instant speed, not BU, but similar mechanics.

Notion Rain and Discovery // Dispersal are the closest blue/black equivalents to Dihada's Ploy. None offer life gain or jump-start, but they best match its colors and function.

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Dihada's Ploy

Dispersal

Notion Rain

Thirst for Knowledge

Dihada's Ploy #193 Instant

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 3
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  • Instant
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  • A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
  • Dihada's Ploy counts the total number of cards discarded, including the card you discard as part of its effect and any cards you discarded prior to its resolution this turn. If you cast it with jump-start, this includes the card you discarded to cast it.
  • If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
  • If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
  • If the card draws are replaced by another effect, you will still discard a card and gain life. If you don't have any cards to discard, it will still count any cards previously discarded this turn.

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    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.26 EUR 0.12 EUR
    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.16 USD 0.11 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Draw two cards, thendiscarda card. You gain life equal to the number of cards you've discarded this turn. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

    Discovery (Discovery // Dispersal) #207 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 7
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    Surveil

    Rules

  • As Dispersal resolves, first the next opponent in turn order (or, if it's an opponent's turn, that opponent) chooses a nonland permanent they control with the highest mana cost among their permanents, then each other opponent in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Then all the chosen permanents are returned at the same time. Next, each opponent in the same order chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then the chosen cards are discarded at the same time.
  • If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If an opponent controls only lands as Dispersal resolves, that player won't return any permanent to their hand. They'll still discard a card.
  • A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
  • Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
  • Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
  • If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
  • If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
  • Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
  • To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.

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    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.14 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Surveil 2, then draw a card. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

    Dispersal (Discovery // Dispersal) #207 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Surveil

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  • As Dispersal resolves, first the next opponent in turn order (or, if it's an opponent's turn, that opponent) chooses a nonland permanent they control with the highest mana cost among their permanents, then each other opponent in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Then all the chosen permanents are returned at the same time. Next, each opponent in the same order chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then the chosen cards are discarded at the same time.
  • If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If an opponent controls only lands as Dispersal resolves, that player won't return any permanent to their hand. They'll still discard a card.
  • A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
  • Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
  • Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
  • If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
  • If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
  • Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
  • To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.

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    Tcgplayer 0.14 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Each opponent returns a nonland permanent they control with the greatest mana value among permanents they control to its owner's hand, then discards a card.

    Notion Rain #217 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Surveil

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  • When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
  • You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

    Thirst for Knowledge #48 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • You can discard either one artifact card or two cards which may or may not be artifacts. If you really want to, you can discard two artifact cards.

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    Tcgplayer 0.26 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR
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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

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    Draw three cards. Thendiscardtwo cards unless youdiscardan artifact card.