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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Cunning Rhetoric

Equivalent black cards to Cunning Rhetoric (effects when opponents attack or exile/play their cards):
1. Marchesa's Decree – Gives you a benefit when attacked (opponents lose life), and is black.
2. Court of Ambition – Monarch mechanic, drains life each upkeep. Not identical, but similar in punishing attacks.
3. Nightmare Shepherd – Turns dying creatures into 1/1 tokens under your control.
4. Kheru Mind-Eater – Exiles cards from opponent's hand when it deals damage.


Reason: These black cards offer either deterrents for being attacked or ways to use opponents' resources, mirroring the spirit of Cunning Rhetoric. Full equivalents are rare, but these are close in color and intent.

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Court of Ambition #85978 Enchantment

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Tokens:
    The Monarch

    Rules

  • As Court of Ambition's second ability resolves, first the next opponent in turn order chooses whether they are discarding or not. If they are, they choose a card without revealing it (or two cards without revealing them, if you're the monarch), then each other opponent in turn order does the same. Then each chosen card is discarded simultaneously, and finally each player who couldn't or didn't discard loses the appropriate amount of life.
  • If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn't resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn.
  • If the monarch leaves the game during another player's turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.
  • If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
  • The game starts with no monarch. Once an effect makes one player the monarch, the game will have exactly one monarch from that point forward. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch.
  • There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch."

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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 this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless theydiscarda card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless theydiscardtwo cards.

    Cunning Rhetoric #129 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Rules

  • If you play a card this way, it leaves exile and becomes a new object. If it returns to exile later in the turn, you can't play it again.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the exiled card. If it's a land, you can't play it unless you have land plays available.
  • You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.72 USD
    Cardmarket 0.69 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.6 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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    Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

    Kheru Mind-Eater #17 Creature — Vampire

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/3
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  • Creature
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  • Vampire
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Menace

    Rules

  • If another player gains control of Kheru Mind-Eater, that player can see all of the exiled cards and may play them. Once a player looks at a face-down exiled card, that player may look at that card any time later in the game.
  • Once you begin to cast an exiled card, losing control of Kheru Mind-Eater won’t affect the spell.
  • The last ability of Kheru Mind-Eater only lets you cast cards exiled by that card. If Kheru Mind-Eater leaves the battlefield, the exiled cards are lost forever.
  • You may play land cards exiled with Kheru Mind-Eater only if you have an available land play this turn.
  • You must pay the costs to cast the exiled cards. If one has an alternative cost, you may cast it for that cost instead.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.68 USD
    Cardmarket 0.61 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Cardsphere 0.73 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

    Menace Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles a card from their hand face down. You may look at cards exiled with this creature, and you may play lands and cast spells from among those cards.

    Marchesa's Decree #44 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Tokens:
    The Monarch

    Rules

  • Abilities that trigger whenever you "become the monarch" trigger only if you aren't already the monarch. For example, if you are already the monarch as Custodi Lich enters the battlefield, its last ability won't trigger.
  • Being the monarch carries two inherent triggered abilities. "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch."
  • If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack, and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
  • The game starts with no monarch. Once an effect makes one player the monarch, the game will have exactly one monarch from that point forward.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.96 USD / 9.9 USD
    Cardmarket 2 EUR / 6.1 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.99 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 2.12 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 enchantment enters, you become the monarch. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

    Nightmare Shepherd #315 Enchantment Creature — Demon

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
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  • Enchantment
  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Normal
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    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
  • If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy is also a 1/1 and a Nightmare.
  • If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
  • If the token is a copy of a creature whose power and toughness are defined by an ability (usually printed as */* or similar), the token doesn't copy the ability that defines its power and toughness. It remains a 1/1 creature.
  • The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
  • The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it existed in the graveyard before it was exiled.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.7 USD / 4.72 USD
    Cardmarket 1.56 EUR / 3.49 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD / 4.99 USD
    Cardsphere 1.62 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

    Flying Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

    Court of Ambition Enchantment Normal

    Cunning Rhetoric Enchantment Normal - ~$2.92

    Kheru Mind-Eater Creature — Vampire Normal - ~$2.85

    Marchesa's Decree Enchantment Normal - ~$4.77

    Nightmare Shepherd Enchantment Creature — Demon Normal - ~$3.62

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