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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Essence Extraction

Similar cards to Essence Extraction (black, instant, removal, life gain):

  • Sorin's Thirst: 2 mana, instant, 2 damage to creature, you gain 2 life.
  • Epicure of Blood: Not instant, but triggers life gain from other sources.
  • Vicious Offering: Instant, -2/-2 (or -5/-5 with kicker), no life gain.
  • Ob Nixilis's Cruelty: Instant, -5/-5, exile if dies, no life gain.

Closest: Sorin's Thirst—both are instant, both kill small creatures and gain life.

Results:

Epicure of Blood #M19-95 Creature — Vampire

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: 4/4
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vampire
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Epicure of Blood's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Epicure of Blood's ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
  • The ability of Epicure of Blood triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Impassioned Orator or 4 life from Dawning Angel. If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Epicure of Blood triggers only once.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.13 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.15 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 you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

    Essence Extraction #80 Instant

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

  • If the target creature becomes an illegal target, Essence Extraction doesn't resolve and you don't gain life.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.15 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Manapool 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

    Essence Extraction deals 3 damage to target creature and you gain 3 life.

    Ob Nixilis's Cruelty #101 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • The replacement effect from Ob Nixilis’s Cruelty will exile the target creature if it would die this turn for any reason, not just immediately after Ob Nixilis’s Cruelty resolves.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD / 0.3 USD
    Cardmarket 0.06 EUR / 0.31 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.28 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 -5/-5 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

    Sorin's Thirst #104 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Sorin’s Thirst tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain 2 life.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD / 0.23 USD
    Cardmarket 0.07 EUR / 0.12 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.28 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

    Vicious Offering #110 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Kicker

    Rules

  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.03 USD / 0.04 USD
    Cardmarket 0.05 EUR / 0.39 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.16 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Kicker—Sacrifice a creature. (You maysacrificea creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.) Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn instead.

    Epicure of Blood Creature — Vampire Normal - ~$0.19

    Essence Extraction Instant Normal - ~$0.2

    Ob Nixilis's Cruelty Instant Normal - ~$0.32

    Sorin's Thirst Instant Normal - ~$0.23

    Vicious Offering Instant Normal - ~$0.21

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