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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Wave of Rats

Cards equivalent to Wave of Rats (a black creature with menace and a persist-related effect):

  • Relentless Rats (recurring rat tribal theme)
  • Rat Colony (similar scalable rat)
  • Geralf's Messenger (black persist)
  • Murderous Redcap (black persist, but hybrid red)
  • Reassembling Skeleton (recurs itself)


Reason: All are black, offer recursion or value when dying, and link to rats or persist mechanics.

Results:

Geralf's Messenger #842 Creature — Zombie

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 3/2
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Undying

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 5.86 USD
    Cardmarket 14.46 EUR
    Cardkingdom 9.49 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

    This creature enters tapped. When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1counteron it.)

    Murderous Redcap #217 Creature — Goblin Assassin

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Goblin
  • Assassin
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Persist

    Rules

  • Murderous Redcap’s power is checked at the time the ability resolves. If it’s left the battlefield by then, its last known information is used.
  • If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
  • If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner’s graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won’t trigger and the card won’t return to the battlefield. That’s because persist checks the creature’s existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
  • If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they’ll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.
  • If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can’t return to the battlefield.
  • If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player’s persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player’s persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.
  • The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.
  • When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.95 USD / 1.97 USD
    Cardmarket 0.31 EUR / 0.69 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.99 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.88 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

    When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1counteron it.)

    Rat Colony #36 Creature — Rat

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Rat
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Rat Colony's last ability lets you ignore only the "four-of" rule. It doesn't let you ignore format legality. For example, during a Bloomburrow Limited event, you can't add Rat Colonies from your personal collection.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 8.29 USD
    Cardmarket 8.6 EUR
    Cardkingdom 10.99 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

    This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control. A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.

    Reassembling Skeleton #1406 Creature — Skeleton Warrior

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Skeleton
  • Warrior
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 19.18 USD / 24.42 USD
    Cardmarket 17.52 EUR / 21.04 EUR
    Cardsphere 16.61 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

    : Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

    Relentless Rats #11 Creature — Rat

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Rat
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to one Relentless Rats may become lethal if another Relentless Rats leaves the battlefield during that turn.
  • The last ability of Relentless Rats lets you ignore the "four-of" rule. It doesn't let you ignore format legality. For example, during a Bloomburrow Limited event, you can't add Relentless Rats from your personal collection.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 5.09 USD / 16.35 USD
    Cardkingdom 5.99 USD / 15.99 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

    This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

    Wave of Rats #41p Creature — Rat

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 4/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Rat
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Blitz Trample

    Rules

  • If a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of or becomes a copy of a creature whose blitz cost was paid, the copy won't have haste, won't be sacrificed, and its controller won't draw a card when it dies.
  • If you choose to pay the blitz cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to and countered. You can cast a creature spell for its blitz cost only if you could cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • If you pay the blitz cost to cast a creature spell, that permanent will be sacrificed only if it's still on the battlefield when that triggered ability resolves. If it dies or goes to another zone before then, it will stay where it is.
  • The triggered ability that lets its controller draw a card triggers when it dies for any reason, not just when you sacrifice it during the end step.
  • You don't have to attack with the creature with blitz unless another ability says you do.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 10.62 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

    Trample When this creature dies, if it dealt combat damage to a player this turn, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Blitz (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card."Sacrificeit at the beginning of the next end step.)

    Geralf's Messenger Creature — Zombie Normal - ~$7.74

    Murderous Redcap Creature — Goblin Assassin Normal - ~$2.64

    Rat Colony Creature — Rat Normal - ~$7.42

    Reassembling Skeleton Creature — Skeleton Warrior Normal - ~$14.43

    Relentless Rats Creature — Rat Normal - ~$8.58

    Wave of Rats Creature — Rat Normal - ~$6.81

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