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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Skewer the Critics

Equivalent cards to Skewer the Critics (Red, damage, cheap cost):
1. Lava Spike – 1 red, 3 damage to player.
2. Lightning Bolt – 1 red, 3 damage to any target.
3. Rift Bolt – 1 red or suspend for cheaper, 3 damage.
4. Roiling Vortex – deals incremental damage, ongoing effect.


Reason: All are efficient red damage spells at similar costs.

Results:

Lava Spike #136 Sorcery — Arcane

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
  • Arcane
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Arcane is a spell subtype that has no inherent rules meaning. It may be referenced by effects from other cards.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.81 USD / 2.45 USD
    Cardmarket 0.83 EUR / 2.25 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD
    Cardsphere 1.01 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

    Lightning Bolt #84 aka. Bolt Instant

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9 v10 v11 v12

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

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 4.87 USD
    Cardmarket 9.12 EUR / 8.19 EUR
    Cardkingdom 5.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

    Rift Bolt #2055 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Suspend

    Rules

  • Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.
  • Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.
  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.
  • If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.
  • Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.
  • The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.
  • When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.
  • You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 8.3 USD
    Cardmarket 10.14 EUR
    Cardkingdom 10.99 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to any target. Suspend 1— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with a timecounteron it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a timecounter When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

    Roiling Vortex #1958 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Activating Roiling Vortex’s last ability won’t undo any life gained before it resolved.
  • An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Roiling Vortex’s first ability triggers twice during each team’s upkeep. Each instance deals 1 damage to one of the players on that team.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.76 USD
    Cardmarket 3.54 EUR / 4.69 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.99 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 3.56 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them. Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player. : Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

    Skewer the Critics #26 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Spectacle

    Rules

  • A card's spectacle cost is the same no matter how much life your opponents lost or how many opponents lost life.
  • Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life.
  • In a multiplayer game, if an opponent loses life and later that turn leaves the game, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost. (If a player leaves the game during their turn, that turn continues without an active player.)
  • Spectacle cares only that an opponent lost life during the turn, not that the opponent's life total is currently lower than it was. For example, if an opponent loses 1 life and then gains 2 life in the same turn, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost that turn.
  • Spectacle doesn't change when you can cast the spell. For example, you can't cast a sorcery with spectacle during an opponent's turn unless another effect allows you to do so, even if that player has lost life this turn.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a spectacle cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.17 USD
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.2 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.1 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Spectacle (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Skewer the Critics deals 3 damage to any target.

    Lava Spike Sorcery — Arcane Normal - ~$1.47

    Lightning Bolt Instant Normal - ~$6.92

    Rift Bolt Sorcery Normal - ~$9.81

    Roiling Vortex Enchantment Normal - ~$4.26

    Skewer the Critics Sorcery Normal - ~$0.21

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