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"Find me cards equivalent to: Gixian Skullflayer"

Equivalent cards to Gixian Skullflayer (mono-black, self-growing creature in graveyard-focused deck):
1. Nighthowler - Gets bigger for each creature card in all graveyards.
2. Bonehoard - Living weapon equipment, counts creature cards in graveyard.
3. Grim Haruspex - Not self-growing, but draws cards when creatures die.
4. Marang River Prowler - Recurs itself from graveyard, black ability.
5. Death Tyrant - Creates 2/2 zombies when other creatures die.
6. Diregraf Ghoul - No grave recursion, but black and creature.

Closest in effect and color:
Nighthowler (grows with graveyard),
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Reason: Both benefit from graveyard creatures.
• Example card:
Nighthowler
{1}{B}{B}
Enchantment Creature — Horror
Bestow {2}{B}{B},
Nighthowler and enchanted creature get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

(None match put a +1/+1 counter every upkeep if three or more creatures in your graveyard exactly, but Nighthowler is closest in black.)

Found Cards

7 Results

Bonehoard

Death Tyrant

Diregraf Ghoul

Gixian Skullflayer

Grim Haruspex

Marang River Prowler

Nighthowler

Bonehoard #100 Artifact — Equipment

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Color:
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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Artifact
    • SubTypes:
  • Equipment
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Phyrexian Germ

    Abilities/Keywords

    Equip

    Rules

  • Although creature tokens go to the graveyard before ceasing to exist, they never count as creature cards and won't increase the bonus granted by Bonehoard, however briefly.
  • If lethal damage is dealt simultaneously to the equipped creature and another creature, both creatures are put into the graveyard at the same time. The equipped creature won't get an additional bonus from the other creature.
  • If there are no creature cards in any graveyard when Bonehoard's living weapon ability resolves, the Germ will be 0/0 and put into its owner's graveyard.
  • The value of X is calculated continuously as the number of creature cards in graveyards changes.
  • If the Germ token is destroyed, the Equipment remains on the battlefield as with any other Equipment.
  • If the living weapon trigger causes two Germs to be created (due to an effect such as that of Doubling Season), the Equipment becomes attached to one of them. The other will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
  • Like other Equipment, each Equipment with living weapon has an equip cost. You can pay this cost to attach an Equipment to another creature you control. Once the Germ token is no longer equipped, it will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
  • The Germ token enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature and the Equipment becomes attached to it before state-based actions would cause the token to die. Abilities that trigger as the token enters the battlefield see that a 0/0 creature entered the battlefield.

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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

    Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards. Equip

    Death Tyrant #292 Creature — Beholder Skeleton

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 4/6
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Beholder
  • Skeleton
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Zombie

    Abilities/Keywords

    Menace

    Rules

  • No entries

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    Cardmarket / 1.5 EUR 2.18 EUR
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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

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    Menace Negative Energy Cone — Whenever an attacking creature you control or a blocking creature an opponent controls dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. : Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

    Diregraf Ghoul #97 Creature — Zombie

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

    Rules

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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

    This creature enters tapped.

    Gixian Skullflayer #100 Creature — Phyrexian Human Assassin

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    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Phyrexian
  • Human
  • Assassin
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Gixian Skullflayer's triggered ability checks the number of cards in your graveyard both when it triggers and when it resolves. If there aren't three or more creature cards in your graveyard each time, you won't put a +1/+1 counter it.

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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

    At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1counteron this creature.

    Grim Haruspex #152 Creature — Human Wizard

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 3/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Morph

    Abilities/Keywords

    Morph

    Rules

  • A permanent that turns face up or face down changes characteristics but is otherwise the same permanent. Spells and abilities that were targeting that permanent, as well as Auras and Equipment that were attached to the permanent, aren't affected.
  • Any time you have priority, you may turn the face-down creature face up by revealing what its morph cost is and paying that cost. This is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to. Only a face-down permanent can be turned face up this way; a face-down spell cannot.
  • At any time, you can look at a face-down spell or permanent you control. You can't look at face-down spells or permanents you don't control unless an effect instructs you to do so.
  • Because the permanent is on the battlefield both before and after it's turned face up, turning a permanent face up doesn't cause any enters-the-battlefield abilities to trigger.
  • If a face-down permanent leaves the battlefield, you must reveal it. You must also reveal all face-down spells and permanents you control if you leave the game or if the game ends.
  • Morph lets you cast a card face down by paying {3}, and lets you turn the face-down permanent face up any time you have priority by paying its morph cost.
  • The face-down spell has no mana cost and has a mana value of 0. When you cast a face-down spell, put it on the stack face down so no other player knows what it is, and pay {3}. This is an alternative cost.
  • When the spell resolves, it enters the battlefield as a 2/2 creature with no name, mana cost, creature types, or abilities. It's colorless and has a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the creature can still grant it any of these characteristics.
  • You must ensure that your face-down spells and permanents can easily be differentiated from each other. You're not allowed to mix up the cards that represent them on the battlefield in order to confuse other players. The order they entered the battlefield should remain clear. Common methods for doing this include using markers or dice, or simply placing them in order on the battlefield.

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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

    Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

    Marang River Prowler #65 Creature — Human Rogue

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Marang River Prowler checks if you control a black or green permanent only as you begin to cast it. Once you begin to cast Marang River Prowler from your graveyard, it doesn't matter what happens to the black or green permanents you control.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions and pay its cost to cast Marang River Prowler from your graveyard.

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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

    This creature can't block and can't be blocked. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a black or green permanent.

    Nighthowler #98 Enchantment Creature — Horror

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 0/0
    Types:
  • Enchantment
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Horror
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Bestow

    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.
  • Nighthowler's last ability functions only from the battlefield. In other zones, Nighthowler is a 0/0 enchantment creature.
  • 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.

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    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.89 EUR 0.17 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.32 USD / 1.54 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 1.18 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.