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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Gonti's Machinations

Equivalent cards to Gonti's Machinations (black, energy/life interaction):
1. Aether Poisoner — black, creates energy, interacts with combat.
2. Aetherborn Marauder — black, uses energy for lifelink/trample.
3. Aether Meltdown — blue, creates energy and affects creatures (not black, but relevant if you want energy/life loss).


Reason: Few cards replicate the exact pay-energy/lose-life mechanic, but those above share similar themes in black.

Results:

Aether Meltdown #36 Enchantment — Aura

Info

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Enchant Flash

    Rules

  • If the target creature or Vehicle becomes an illegal target while Aether Meltdown is on the stack, Aether Meltdown won't resolve. It won't enter the battlefield and you won't get {E}{E}.
  • 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 0.08 USD / 0.19 USD
    Cardmarket 0.09 EUR / 0.26 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.22 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

    Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature or Vehicle When this Aura enters, you get (two energy counters). Enchanted creature gets -4/-0.

    Aether Poisoner #75 Creature — Human Artificer

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Artificer
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Servo Energy Reserve

    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • 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

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough todestroyit.) When this creature enters, you get (two energy counters). Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.

    Aetherborn Marauder #125 Creature — Aetherborn Rogue

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Aetherborn
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Lifelink

    Rules

  • If a creature has been dealt damage, that damage remains marked on it until the cleanup step. If Aetherborn Marauder takes counters from a creature that has been dealt damage, that creature will be destroyed if the damage is now lethal.
  • You choose which counters to move as Aetherborn Marauder's triggered ability resolves.
  • You may choose to move zero +1/+1 counters.
  • You may move +1/+1 counters from any number of other permanents you control, not just from one.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD
    Cardmarket 0.07 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.08 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

    Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, move any number of +1/+1 counters from other permanents you control onto this creature.

    Gonti's Machinations #63 Enchantment

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Energy Reserve

    Rules

  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Gonti's Machinations's second ability causes the opposing team to lose a total of 6 life.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, damage and life loss happen to individual players, and the result affects the team's life total. Combat damage is assigned and dealt to specific players. If your teammate is dealt damage or otherwise loses life, Gonti's Machinations doesn't trigger, even though your life total went down.
  • The triggered ability gives you at most one energy counter each turn, regardless of how much life you lost.
  • 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 0.17 USD / 1.79 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR / 0.9 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 1.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 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

    Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get . (You get an energycounter Damage causes loss of life.) Pay ,Sacrificethis enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

    Aether Meltdown Enchantment — Aura Normal - ~$1.83

    Aether Poisoner Creature — Human Artificer Normal

    Aetherborn Marauder Creature — Aetherborn Rogue Normal - ~$2.46

    Gonti's Machinations Enchantment Normal - ~$2.17

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