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"Find me cards equivalent to: Hired Torturer"

Equivalent cards to Hired Torturer with similar color and effects:
1. Cryptolith Fragment – Colorless/Black, makes each opponent lose 1 life, with a flip mechanics.
2. Gonti's Machinations – Black, can drain opponents for life.
3. Fell Specter – Black, makes opponent lose life and discard.
4. Heartless Executioner – Black, forces opponent to sacrifice, but no direct life loss.
5. Blood Artist – Black, drains life passively.


Reason: True equivalents with defender and targeted life loss are rare, but these cards are similar in color and can cause opponents to lose life through activated or triggered abilities. Hired Torturer remains the most direct in its unique ability.

Found Cards

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Blood Artist

Fell Specter

Gonti's Machinations

Hired Torturer

Blood Artist #209 Creature — Vampire

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Color:
Identifies:
Cost:
Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: 0/1
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vampire
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If Blood Artist and one or more other creatures die at the same time, its ability will trigger for each of those creatures.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 4.49 USD
    Manapool 1.92 USD
    Tcgplayer 3.63 USD
    Cardmarket 2.38 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

    Fell Specter #233 Creature — Specter

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 1/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Specter
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 0.21 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.45 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.09 EUR 0.79 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.29 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 When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card. Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

    Gonti's Machinations #63 Enchantment

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    Info

    Color:
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    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.

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    Cardmarket / 1.66 EUR 0.22 EUR
    Manapool / 6.06 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.28 USD / 6.33 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 4.49 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.

    Hired Torturer #25 Creature — Human Rogue

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    Info

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Defender

    Rules

  • Each card in the opponent’s hand has an equal chance of being revealed, even if it was previously revealed because of Hired Torturer’s ability.
  • The card stops being revealed after Hired Torturer’s ability resolves.
  • You can choose an opponent with no cards in hand as the target of Hired Torturer’s ability. If the target opponent has no cards in hand when the ability resolves, that player will just lose 2 life.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer / 0.19 USD 0.06 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.16 EUR 0.05 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Defender , : Target opponent loses 2 life, then reveals a card at random from their hand.