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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Painful Memories

Equivalent cards to Painful Memories (Black, sorcery, hand/top deck manipulation) include:

  • Thoughtseize (removes a card from hand instead of deck)
  • Duress (also hand disruption, but more selective)
  • Stir the Grave (returns a creature from graveyard to hand)
  • Memory Plunder (uses opponent’s graveyard, but manipulates spells)


Reason: There are few cards that put a card from graveyard on top of opponent’s library in black; most black hand-hate puts cards in graveyard, exile, or into your hand.

Results:

Duress #17 Sorcery

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
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  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 19.41 USD
    Cardmarket 20.64 EUR
    Cardkingdom 32.99 USD
    Cardsphere 19.44 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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    Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

    Memory Plunder #169 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • If you are unable to cast the card (there are no legal targets for the spell, for example), nothing happens when Memory Plunder resolves, and the card remains in its owner's graveyard.
  • If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can't pay any alternative costs. On the other hand, if the card has additional costs (such as conspire), you may pay those.
  • If you want to cast the card, you cast it as part of the resolution of Memory Plunder. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored if it's a sorcery. Other casting restrictions are not (such as “Cast [this card] only during combat”).

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 2.52 USD / 27.96 USD
    Cardmarket 1.24 EUR / 8.13 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.79 USD / 22.99 USD
    Cardsphere 2.37 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

    Painful Memories #147 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. Put that card on top of that player's library.

    Stir the Grave #85 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.15 USD / 0.45 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.6 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

    Thoughtseize #1117 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • You lose 2 life even if the target player has no nonland cards in their hand to discard.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 32.39 USD / 39.86 USD
    Cardmarket 30.09 EUR
    Cardkingdom 44.99 USD / 29.99 USD
    Cardsphere 32.77 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

    Duress Sorcery Normal - ~$23.12

    Memory Plunder Instant Normal - ~$8.46

    Painful Memories Sorcery Normal - ~$2.5

    Stir the Grave Sorcery Normal - ~$1.96

    Thoughtseize Sorcery Normal - ~$25.19

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