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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Desperate Measures

Equivalent cards in black (same color) are:

  • Devour in Shadow (also exiles a creature, but costs life, not treasure)
  • Tragic Slip (conditionally kills)
  • Deadly Grub (but less immediate removal, creature dies)
  • Mire's Grasp (enchantment-based removal)


Reason: Black excels at creature removal, but few exile and create treasures exactly like Desperate Measures. Closest are single-target black removals.

Results:

Deadly Grub #108 Creature — Insect

Info

Color:
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Cost:
Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 3/1
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Insect
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Tokens:
    Insect

    Abilities/Keywords

    Vanishing

    Rules

  • The ability checks to see if Deadly Grub had no time counters on it at the time it was put into a graveyard from the battlefield. This doesn't necessarily mean it must have been sacrificed due to vanishing; it could have been put into the graveyard some other way (say, while the sacrifice ability of vanishing is on the stack).

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.03 USD / 0.24 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR / 0.26 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.18 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a timecounterfrom it. When the last is removed,sacrificeit.) When this creature dies, if it had no time counters on it, create a 6/1 green Insect creature token with shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

    Desperate Measures #78 Instant

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • As long as you control it, you will get to draw two cards when the target creature goes to the graveyard, regardless of whether it died due to having 0 toughness or something else.
  • If the creature is no longer a creature at the time it goes to the graveyard, you will still draw two cards if you controlled it at that time.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.07 USD / 0.16 USD
    Cardmarket 0.26 EUR / 0.29 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.19 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.

    Devour in Shadow #46 Instant

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.17 USD / 0.75 USD
    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR / 0.56 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.27 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

    Mire's Grasp #106 Enchantment — Aura

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
  • Aura
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Enchant

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.03 USD / 0.19 USD
    Cardmarket 0.05 EUR / 0.21 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.17 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -3/-3.

    Tragic Slip #35 Instant

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • No entries

    • 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

    Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

    Deadly Grub Creature — Insect Normal - ~$0.25

    Desperate Measures Instant Normal - ~$0.26

    Devour in Shadow Instant Normal - ~$0.4

    Mire's Grasp Enchantment — Aura Normal - ~$0.21

    Tragic Slip Instant Normal

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