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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Gonti's Machinations

Equivalent cards to Gonti's Machinations (Black, life drain/sacrifice for effect) include:

  • Bloodchief Ascension (drains life when opponent loses life)
  • Underworld Dreams (opponents lose life as they draw)
  • Revenant Revelers (drain on death, but controls trigger more)
  • Polluted Bonds (drain when opponent plays lands)

These cards share black color and incrementally drain or punish opponents for actions.

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Bloodchief Ascension #23 Enchantment

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 1
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  • Enchantment
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    Rules

  • Bloodchief Ascension's first ability checks how much life was lost by each opponent over the course of the entire turn, even if Bloodchief Ascension wasn't on the battlefield the whole time.
  • Bloodchief Ascension's first ability checks only whether life was lost. It doesn't care whether life was also gained. For example, if an opponent lost 4 life and gained 6 life during the turn, that player will have a higher life total than they started the turn with — but Bloodchief Ascension's first ability will still trigger.
  • Bloodchief Ascension's first ability has an "intervening 'if' clause." It won't trigger at all unless an opponent has already lost 2 or more life by the time the end step begins.
  • Bloodchief Ascension's second ability doesn't behave like a leaves-the-battlefield triggered ability, since the card put into an opponent's graveyard may come from anywhere. If a Bloodchief Ascension with three quest counters on it and a permanent an opponent owns are destroyed at the same time, for example, the game will not "look back in time" at the game state, and Bloodchief Ascension's second ability won't trigger.
  • For the first ability to trigger, a single opponent must have lost 2 life. Two opponents each losing 1 life won't cause it to trigger. It will trigger a maximum of once per turn, no matter how many opponents have lost 2 or more life.

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    Tcgplayer 7.94 USD / 9.27 USD
    Cardmarket 9.94 EUR / 10.52 EUR
    Cardkingdom 10.99 USD / 12.99 USD
    Manapool 24.25 USD / 10.6 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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    At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a questcounteron this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

    Gonti's Machinations #63 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Energy Reserve

    Rules

  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Gonti's Machinations's second ability causes the opposing team to lose a total of 6 life.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, damage and life loss happen to individual players, and the result affects the team's life total. Combat damage is assigned and dealt to specific players. If your teammate is dealt damage or otherwise loses life, Gonti's Machinations doesn't trigger, even though your life total went down.
  • The triggered ability gives you at most one energy counter each turn, regardless of how much life you lost.
  • 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.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.13 USD / 1.65 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR / 1.25 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.57 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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    Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get . (You get an energycounter Damage causes loss of life.) Pay ,Sacrificethis enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

    Polluted Bonds #95 Enchantment

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 58.57 USD
    Cardmarket 30.43 EUR
    Cardkingdom 64.99 USD
    Manapool 53.77 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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    Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

    Underworld Dreams #1 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If multiple cards are drawn at once, this card triggers once for each card drawn.
  • In a multi-player game, it affects all opponents.
  • If a spell or ability causes you to put cards into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” it’s not a card drawn.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 12.96 USD
    Cardmarket 7.03 EUR
    Cardkingdom 16.99 USD
    Manapool 11.02 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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    Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

    Bloodchief Ascension Enchantment Normal - ~$12.06

    Gonti's Machinations Enchantment Normal - ~$0.66

    Polluted Bonds Enchantment Normal - ~$51.94

    Underworld Dreams Enchantment Normal - ~$12

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