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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Dark Confidant

Equivalent cards to Dark Confidant (black, similar effect: card advantage with a drawback):

  • Glint-Sleeve Siphoner (black, card draw with energy)
  • Graveborn Muse (black, draws cards at upkeep)
  • Phyrexian Arena (black, draws a card and loses life each upkeep)
  • Blood Scrivener (black, card draw when hand is empty)


Reason: All provide repeatable card draw, usually with a life-loss or similar drawback, and are black cards.

Results:

Blood Scrivener #22 Creature — Zombie Wizard

Info

Color:
Identifies:
Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 2/1
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • Any time you are instructed to draw more than one card, you draw them one at a time. For example, if you control Blood Scrivener and have no cards in hand and you’re instructed to “draw two cards,” your first card draw is replaced by drawing two cards and losing 1 life, then you’ll draw the second card from the original instruction. In total, you’ll draw three cards and lose 1 life.
  • Each additional Blood Scrivener you control will effectively add one card and 1 life lost. Say you control two Blood Scriveners and would draw a card while you have no cards in hand. The effect of one Blood Scrivener will replace the event “draw a card” with “draw two cards and lose 1 life.” The effect of the other Blood Scrivener will replace the drawing of the first of those two cards with “draw two cards and lose 1 life.” You’ll draw two cards and lose 1 life, then draw another card and lose another 1 life.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.19 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.28 EUR / 0.56 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.36 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

    If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

    Dark Confidant #94s aka. Bob Creature — Human Wizard

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

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

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 13.18 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

    At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

    Glint-Sleeve Siphoner #62 Creature — Human Rogue

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Tokens:
    Energy Reserve

    Abilities/Keywords

    Menace

    Rules

  • The first triggered ability triggers both when Glint-Sleeve Siphoner enters the battlefield and whenever it attacks. You don't have to choose only one.
  • Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
  • Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
  • If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
  • If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
  • Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
  • Some spells and abilities that give you {E} may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any {E}.
  • Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E}. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of {E} as the ability resolves.
  • Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E} describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
  • {E} is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.21 USD / 1.55 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR / 0.73 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.31 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 enters or attacks, you get (an energy counter). At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

    Graveborn Muse #73 Creature — Zombie Spirit

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Spirit
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 6.89 USD / 59 USD
    Cardmarket 3.85 EUR / 31.07 EUR
    Cardkingdom 8.49 USD
    Cardsphere 7.43 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

    At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

    Phyrexian Arena #283 Enchantment

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.15 USD
    Cardmarket 2.35 EUR / 2.02 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

    Blood Scrivener Creature — Zombie Wizard Normal - ~$1.95

    Dark Confidant Creature — Human Wizard Normal - ~$7.46

    Glint-Sleeve Siphoner Creature — Human Rogue Normal - ~$2.06

    Graveborn Muse Creature — Zombie Spirit Normal - ~$14.82

    Phyrexian Arena Enchantment Normal - ~$2.25

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