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"Find me cards equivalent to: Demonic Taskmaster"

Here are some equivalent cards to Demonic Taskmaster (Creature — Demon, black, self-sacrifice/board-tax effect):
1. Abyssal Persecutor — Creature — Demon, black, flying, but stops you from winning.
2. Desecration Demon — Creature — Demon, black, flying, opponents can sac creatures to tap it.
3. Herald of Torment — Creature — Demon, black, flying, with a self-drain effect if bestowed.
4. Herald of Anguish — Creature — Demon, black, flying, costly sac artifact ability.


Reason: All these are black Demon creatures with flying and an ability that taxes creatures in some way, like Demonic Taskmaster.

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Abyssal Persecutor

Demonic Taskmaster

Desecration Demon

Herald of Anguish

Herald of Torment

Abyssal Persecutor #38 Creature — Demon

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 6/6
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  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Trample

    Rules

  • Abyssal Persecutor won't preclude an opponent's life total from reaching 0 or less. It will just preclude that player from losing the game as a result.
  • Effects that say the game is a draw, such as the _Legends_(TM) card Divine Intervention, are not affected by Abyssal Persecutor.
  • Even though your opponents can't lose the game, a player can't pay an amount of life that's greater than their life total. If a player's life total is 0 or less, that player can't pay life at all, with one exception: a player may always pay 0 life.
  • If Abyssal Persecutor leaves the battlefield while an opponent has 0 or less life, that opponent will lose the game as a state-based action. No player can respond between the time Abyssal Persecutor leaves the battlefield and the time that player loses the game.
  • No game effect can cause you to win the game or cause any opponent to lose the game while you control Abyssal Persecutor. It doesn't matter whether an opponent has 0 or less life, an opponent is forced to draw a card while their library is empty, an opponent has ten or more poison counters, an opponent is dealt combat damage by Phage the Untouchable, you control Felidar Sovereign and have 40 or more life, or so on. You keep playing.
  • Other circumstances can still cause an opponent to lose the game, however. An opponent will lose a game if they concede, if that player is penalized with a Game Loss or a Match Loss during a sanctioned tournament due to a DCI rules infraction, or if that player's Magic Online® game clock runs out of time.

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    Text

    Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

    Demonic Taskmaster #95 Creature — Demon

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 4/3
    Types:
  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • If Demonic Taskmaster leaves the battlefield after its ability triggers but before it resolves, you’ll still have to sacrifice a creature. Notably, if you control two Demonic Taskmasters and no other creatures, each one will force you to sacrifice the other.
  • If you control no other creatures, you won’t sacrifice anything.

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    Cardkingdom / 0.79 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.56 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.71 USD 0.13 USD
    Manapool / 0.39 USD 0.15 USD

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    Flying At the beginning of your upkeep,sacrificea creature other than this creature.

    Desecration Demon #63 Creature — Demon

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 6/6
    Types:
  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Each opponent in turn order may choose to sacrifice a creature, even if an opponent already chose to sacrifice a creature that combat. Desecration Demon will have a maximum of one +1/+1 counter put on it each combat, no matter how many creatures were sacrificed.
  • Players won't know which player, planeswalker, or battle Desecration Demon will attack, if any, when deciding whether to sacrifice a creature.

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    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.38 USD / 1.95 USD
    Manapool 0.18 USD / 0.65 USD
    Cardmarket 0.33 EUR / 0.6 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying At the beginning of each combat, any opponent maysacrificea creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1counteron it.

    Herald of Anguish #64s Creature — Demon

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
    Types:
  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Normal
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    Flying Improvise

    Rules

  • Because improvise isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
  • Equipment attached to a creature doesn't become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn't cause the creature to become tapped.
  • If an artifact you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise.
  • Improvise can't be used to pay for anything other than the cost of casting the spell. For example, it can't be used during the resolution of an ability that says “Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.”
  • Improvise can't pay for {W}, {U}, {B}, {R}, {G}, or {C} mana symbols in a spell's total cost.
  • Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
  • Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
  • When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.

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    Cardkingdom 4.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 3.64 USD
    Cardmarket 2.68 EUR
    Manapool 2.12 USD

    Legalities

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    Text

    Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .) Flying At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card. ,Sacrificean artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

    Herald of Torment #75 Enchantment Creature — Demon

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Enchantment
  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Bestow Flying

    Rules

  • Auras attached to a creature don't become tapped when the creature becomes tapped. Except in some rare cases, an Aura with bestow remains untapped when it becomes unattached and becomes a creature.
  • If a permanent with bestow enters the battlefield by any method other than being cast, it will be an enchantment creature. You can't choose to pay the bestow cost and have it become an Aura.
  • On the stack, a spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both, although it's an enchantment spell in either case.
  • Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow isn't countered if its target is illegal as it begins to resolve. Rather, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, it returns to being an enchantment creature spell, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.
  • Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if it becomes unattached. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its {T} abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it's been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began.
  • The triggered ability that causes you to lose life applies whether Herald of Torment is a creature or an Aura. The "you" in that ability refers to Herald of Torment's controller. If you control Herald of Torment as an Aura enchanting a creature another player controls, that ability will trigger at the beginning of your upkeep and cause you to lose 1 life.

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    Tcgplayer / 0.8 USD 0.18 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.47 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR / 0.48 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life. Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.