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"Find me cards equivalent to: Sméagol, Helpful Guide"

Equivalent cards to Sméagol, Helpful Guide (B/G, Legendary Creature with graveyard/library interaction, land theft):
1. Gonti, Lord of Luxury (lets you exile and play opponents’ cards, B, similar in value-theft)
2. Xira, the Golden Sting (B/G/R, legendary, creates Insect tokens, but more focused on death triggers)
3. The Gitrog Monster (B/G, legendary, cares about lands and creatures dying)
4. Old Rutstein (B/G, legendary, self-mill and graveyard value generation)
5. Meren of Clan Nel Toth (B/G, legendary, cares about creatures dying for reanimation value)


Reason: All above are B/G legendary creatures that offer graveyard/library interaction or benefit from creatures dying, like Sméagol, Helpful Guide. None have the exact land-theft effect, but Gonti, Lord of Luxury and The Gitrog Monster are the closest in spirit.

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Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Old Rutstein

Sméagol, Helpful Guide

The Gitrog Monster

Xira, the Golden Sting

Gonti, Lord of Luxury #1566 Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue

Variations: v1 v2
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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 2/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Aetherborn
  • Rogue
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
  • Casting the card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • Gonti doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • If you leave the game, the card remains exiled face down indefinitely. No player may look at it.
  • You may look at and cast that card (and spend mana as though it were mana of any type to do so) even if Gonti leaves the battlefield. If another player gains control of Gonti, that player can't look at or cast the card, and you still can.
  • You pay the costs for the exiled card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost.
  • The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless. Snow mana is not a type of mana. Gonti, Lord of Luxury won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.

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    Tcgplayer 6.64 USD
    Cardmarket 2.83 EUR / 3.58 EUR
    Manapool 5.9 USD
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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

    Text

    Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Meren of Clan Nel Toth #49 Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 3/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Shaman
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    Normal
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    Experience

    Rules

  • All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.
  • Each game pack includes a card labeled “Experience” with the suggestion “Place your experience counters here.” This card isn’t required for play. It’s simply a convenient spot to put your experience counters, which can be represented with dice, glass beads, or other small items.
  • Experience counters are the second kind of counters a player can have, joining poison.
  • If Meren of Clan Nel Toth leaves the battlefield at the same time as other creatures you control die, its first ability will trigger for each of those creatures.
  • If a creature card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
  • You can’t choose to put the creature card into your hand if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have as the ability resolves.

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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

    Text

    Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experiencecounter At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

    Old Rutstein #326 Legendary Creature — Human Peasant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Peasant
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Treasure Insect Blood

    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • If you mill Dryad Arbor, a card that's both a creature and a land, you get both a Treasure token and a 1/1 green Insect token.
  • If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
  • Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
  • You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.

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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

    Text

    When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep,milla card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

    Sméagol, Helpful Guide #330 Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror

    Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 4/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Halfling
  • Horror
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    Normal
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    The Ring // The Ring Tempts You

    Rules

  • As the Ring tempts you, you get an emblem named The Ring if you don't have one. Then your emblem gains its next ability and you choose a creature you control to become (or remain) your Ring-bearer.
  • Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
  • Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
  • If the creature you choose as your Ring-bearer was already your Ring-bearer, that still counts as choosing that creature as your Ring-bearer for the purpose of abilities that trigger "whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer" or abilities that care about which creature was chosen as your Ring-bearer.
  • Sméagol, Helpful Guide doesn't need to have been on the battlefield when the creature died. For example, if a creature dies under your control during combat on your turn and you cast Sméagol, Helpful Guide during your second main phase, its first ability will trigger at the beginning of your end step.
  • Sméagol, Helpful Guide's first ability will trigger only once during your end step, no matter how many creatures died under your control this turn. However, if no creatures have died under your control so far this turn as your end step begins, the ability won't trigger at all. It's not possible to cause a creature to die under your control during the end step in time to have the ability trigger.
  • Some spells and abilities that cause the Ring to tempt you may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. The Ring won't tempt you.
  • The Ring can tempt you even if you don't control a creature. In this case, abilities that trigger "whenever the Ring tempts you" will still trigger.
  • The Ring gains its abilities in order from top to bottom. Once it gains an ability, it has that ability for the rest of the game.

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    Cardmarket / 0.87 EUR 0.42 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 0.79 USD 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.23 USD / 0.3 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.37 USD / 0.34 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 your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.

    The Gitrog Monster #117 Legendary Creature — Frog Horror

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 6/6
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Frog
  • Horror
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • If multiple land cards are put into your graveyard at once, The Gitrog Monster's last ability triggers only once. This could happen because an effect put them there from your library at the same time (such as by a mill effect) or because they were destroyed at the same time (such as two land creatures that were dealt lethal combat damage).

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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

    Text

    Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep,sacrificeThe Gitrog Monster unless yousacrificea land. You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.

    Xira, the Golden Sting #70 Legendary Creature — Insect Assassin

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Insect
  • Assassin
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Insect

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Haste

    Rules

  • The delayed triggered ability created as Xira's ability resolves will trigger even if Xira is no longer on the battlefield when that creature dies.

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    Tcgplayer 0.31 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying, haste Whenever Xira attacks, put an eggcounteron another target creature without an eggcounteron it. When that creature dies, if it has an eggcounteron it, draw a card and create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.