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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Apprentice Necromancer

Equivalent cards to Apprentice Necromancer (Black, reanimation, temporary):
1. Lifeline (reanimates creatures when any die, but is an artifact)
2. Reanimate (returns creature from graveyard at cost of life; one-shot)
3. Victimize (sacrifices a creature to return two tapped)
4. Dread Return (reanimates one, has flashback)
5. Unearth (returns a 3-mana-or-less creature)

All are black and focus on graveyard-to-battlefield effects, though each has a twist. No exact repeat of Apprentice Necromancer's specific activated effect.

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Apprentice Necromancer #84 Creature — Zombie Wizard

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 1/1
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Wizard
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Apprentice Necromancer can’t be the target of its own ability. This is because targets are chosen for activated abilities before costs (such as “Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer”) are paid.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.86 USD / 3.89 USD
    Cardmarket 1.64 EUR / 2.83 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD / 3.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.93 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

    , ,Sacrificethis creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step,sacrificeit.

    Dread Return #111 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flashback

    Rules

  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.31 USD / 0.59 USD
    Cardmarket 0.29 EUR / 0.62 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 1.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.46 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 target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

    Lifeline #299 Artifact

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

  • If multiple creatures are coming back, they come back one at a time, not all at once. This is because Lifeline triggered once for each creature and set up a separate “at end of turn” effect for each.
  • It fails to bring the creature back if the creature is not still in the graveyard at the end of turn.
  • It works for all players and has errata to remove the “your graveyard” text.
  • The creature comes back even if Lifeline leaves the battlefield after triggering, but before it resolves.
  • If more than one creature is on the battlefield and all the creatures on the battlefield go to the graveyard at once, then none of them are returned at end of turn. This is because Lifeline’s ability has an intervening-if clause, which means that there must be at least one creature on the battlefield at the time the ability resolves.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 29.48 USD
    Cardmarket 9.6 EUR
    Cardkingdom 29.99 USD
    Cardsphere 27.89 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

    Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

    Reanimate #20 Sorcery

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

  • If a card in a player's graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If any abilities trigger on the creature entering the battlefield, those abilities resolve after you lose life. If losing life results in you losing the game, those abilities won't resolve.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, the creature you control from Reanimate is exiled.
  • The amount of life you lose is determined by the mana value of the card in your graveyard, not the creature once it's on the battlefield.
  • You lose life after the creature is already on the battlefield. Any abilities it has that interact with loss of life, such as that of Platinum Emperion, apply to that loss of life.

    • Prices

    Seller Price

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

    Unearth #72 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cycling

    Rules

  • If a card in a player's graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.68 USD / 122.13 USD
    Cardmarket 1.15 EUR / 76.47 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.99 USD / 149.99 USD
    Cardsphere 1.5 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 target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling (,Discardthis card: Draw a card.)

    Victimize #118 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • As Victimize resolves, you must sacrifice a creature if able. You can't change your mind and choose not to sacrifice anything.
  • If one of the targeted creature cards is an illegal target (for instance, because it has left your graveyard before Victimize resolves), you'll still sacrifice a creature and put the other card onto the battlefield. If both are illegal targets, Victimize won't resolve. You won't sacrifice a creature.
  • The creature you sacrifice isn't chosen until Victimize resolves. You can't return the creature you sacrifice because it will still be on the battlefield at the time targets are chosen.
  • You must choose two targets. You can't cast Victimize targeting only one creature card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.48 USD
    Cardmarket 0.73 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.37 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

    Text

    Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard.Sacrificea creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

    Apprentice Necromancer Creature — Zombie Wizard Normal - ~$3.18

    Dread Return Sorcery Normal - ~$2.19

    Lifeline Artifact Normal - ~$16.23

    Reanimate Sorcery Normal

    Unearth Sorcery Normal - ~$37.16

    Victimize Sorcery Normal - ~$2.74

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