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"Find me cards equivalent to: Melancholic Poet"

Equivalent cards to Melancholic Poet (black, cares about instants/sorceries, triggers life loss/gain):
1. Blood Artist — Drains life when a creature dies (not spell-based, but common black drain card).
2. Epicure of Blood — Each time you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life (synergizes with lifegain).
3. Archfiend of Ifnir — Black creature that interacts with spells (cycling triggers).
4. Vizkopa Guildmage — Can give lifelink/drain effect when you gain life.
5. Therapeute — No real direct black equivalent with the exact Repartee mechanic, but the above interact similarly with life change and spells in black.


Reason: Black's life drain/gain is usually attached to creatures dying or lifegain events, not spells targeting creatures. No perfect equivalent, but these are the closest in color and effect.

Found Cards

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Archfiend of Ifnir

Blood Artist

Epicure of Blood

Melancholic Poet

Vizkopa Guildmage

Archfiend of Ifnir #70 Creature — Demon

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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: 5/4
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Demon
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cycling Flying

    Rules

  • An ability that triggers whenever you "cycle or discard" a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability "Whenever you discard a card" is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.
  • An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn't give you permission to discard cards. You'll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.
  • If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.
  • Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.

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    Cardmarket 0.59 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.4 USD
    Manapool 0.16 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.69 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 you cycle ordiscardanother card, put a -1/-1counteron each creature your opponents control. Cycling (,Discardthis card: Draw a card.)

    Blood Artist #209 Creature — Vampire

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    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.

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    Tcgplayer 3.63 USD
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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

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

    Epicure of Blood #M19-95 Creature — Vampire

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    Info

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vampire
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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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.

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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

    Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

    Melancholic Poet #90 Creature — Elf Bard

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elf
  • Bard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • A repartee ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
  • It doesn't matter if the creature or creatures targeted by the spell that caused the repartee ability to trigger leave the battlefield or stop being creatures before that spell resolves. As long as that spell targeted one or more creatures when it was cast, the repartee ability will trigger and later resolve.

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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

    Repartee — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

    Vizkopa Guildmage #211 Creature — Human Wizard

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

    Rules

  • Each time Vizkopa Guildmage’s second ability resolves, a delayed triggered ability is created. Whenever you gain life that turn, each of those abilities will trigger. For example, if you activate the second ability twice, let those abilities resolve, then gain 2 life, each opponent will lose a total of 4 life.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Vizkopa Guildmage’s delayed triggered ability causes the opposing team to lose twice the life you gained.
  • Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.

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    Cardmarket 0.57 EUR / 1.72 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD / 2.99 USD
    Manapool 0.34 USD / 0.95 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.51 USD / 1.79 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 gains lifelink until end of turn. : Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.