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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Hostage Taker

Equivalent cards to Hostage Taker (Dimir, U/B) that exile or steal creatures or artifacts include:

  • Gonti, Lord of Luxury (exiles and lets you cast an opponent's card)
  • Thief of Sanity (exiles and lets you play from opponent's deck)
  • Sire of Stagnation (exiles opponent's cards when they play lands)
  • Ashiok, Nightmare Muse (exiles creatures and makes tokens)
  • Nightveil Specter (exiles and lets you play exiled cards)


Reason: All are Dimir (U/B) and interact with exile/using opponent’s cards.

Results:

Ashiok, Nightmare Muse #208 Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Planeswalker
    • SubTypes:
  • Ashiok
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Nightmare

    Rules

  • Any effect that exiles a card exiles it face up unless that effect specifies otherwise.
  • If Ashiok's second ability returns a token to its owner's hand, that player can't exile that token from their hand. They must exile a card from their hand if possible.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Thrill of Possibility, those must be paid to cast the card.
  • If you wish to cast any exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of Ashiok's last ability. You can't wait to cast them later. Timing permissions based on a card's type are ignored.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells and/or permanents you control from Ashiok's last ability are exiled.
  • The card exiled while resolving Ashiok's second ability may be the one that was returned to its owner's hand.
  • You may cast any face-up cards your opponents own from exile while resolving Ashiok's last ability, not just those exiled by Ashiok's second ability or by Ashiok's Nightmare tokens.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 5.56 USD / 2.84 USD
    Cardmarket 2.19 EUR / 2.54 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.49 USD / 6.99 USD
    Manapool 2.51 USD / 3.99 USD

    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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    +1 Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this token attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library."
    −3 Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand.
    −7 You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

    Gonti, Lord of Luxury #1566 Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Aetherborn
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
  • Casting the card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • Gonti doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • If you leave the game, the card remains exiled face down indefinitely. No player may look at it.
  • You may look at and cast that card (and spend mana as though it were mana of any type to do so) even if Gonti leaves the battlefield. If another player gains control of Gonti, that player can't look at or cast the card, and you still can.
  • You pay the costs for the exiled card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost.
  • The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless. Snow mana is not a type of mana. Gonti, Lord of Luxury won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 6.34 USD
    Cardmarket 2.01 EUR / 4.83 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.99 USD
    Manapool 5.9 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Hostage Taker #231 Creature — Human Pirate

    Info

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Pirate
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners' graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist.
  • Hostage Taker has received errata to prevent it from targeting itself. The correct Oracle wording appears above.
  • If Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target permanent won't be exiled.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. You can't cast it.
  • If it's still in exile, the exiled card returns to the battlefield immediately after Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. Nothing happens between the two events, including state-based actions.
  • In a multiplayer game, if Hostage Taker's owner leaves the game while the card is still exiled and another player owns that card, the exiled card will return to the battlefield under its owner's control. Because the one-shot effect that returns the card isn't an ability that goes on the stack, it won't cease to exist along with the leaving player's spells and abilities on the stack.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spell or permanent cards you control from Hostage Taker's ability are exiled.
  • Once you begin to cast the exiled card, it's considered a new object. You'll control that spell and the permanent that spell becomes even if Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.24 USD
    Cardmarket 0.23 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 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

    When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Nightveil Specter #222★ Creature — Specter

    Info

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Specter
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Nightveil Specter’s last ability applies to cards exiled with that specific Nightveil Specter, not any other creature named Nightveil Specter. You should keep cards exiled by different Nightveil Specters separate.
  • Playing a card exiled with Nightveil Specter follows all the normal rules for playing that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all timing restrictions, for example.
  • The card is exiled face up. All players may look at it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.99 USD
    Cardmarket 1.02 EUR
    Manapool 0.82 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 Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature.

    Sire of Stagnation #272 Creature — Eldrazi

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 5/7
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Eldrazi
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Devoid

    Rules

  • A card with devoid is just colorless. It’s not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
  • Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
  • Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
  • If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object’s color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
  • If that player has one card in their library when Sire of Stagnation’s triggered ability resolves, that card will be exiled. If their library has zero cards, no cards are exiled. In both cases, you’ll still draw two cards. That player won’t lose the game (until they attempt to draw a card from an empty library).
  • Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it’s just the new color, not that color and colorless.
  • The cards are exiled from the library face up.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.85 USD
    Cardmarket 0.72 EUR / 3.44 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.99 USD / 4.49 USD
    Manapool 0.67 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player exiles the top two cards of their library and you draw two cards.

    Thief of Sanity #243 Creature — Specter

    Info

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
  • Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Thief of Sanity's effect are exiled, and any of the face-down exiled cards remain face down indefinitely. No player may look at them.
  • Thief of Sanity's effect doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • You can still cast the exiled card if Thief of Sanity leaves the battlefield or leaves your control. If another player gains control of Thief of Sanity, that player can't cast the exiled card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.28 EUR
    Manapool 0.5 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 Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Ashiok, Nightmare Muse Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok Normal - ~$4.14

    Gonti, Lord of Luxury Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue Normal - ~$5.21

    Hostage Taker Creature — Human Pirate Normal - ~$0.28

    Nightveil Specter Creature — Specter Normal - ~$1.28

    Sire of Stagnation Creature — Eldrazi Normal - ~$2.19

    Thief of Sanity Creature — Specter Normal - ~$0.38

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