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"Find me cards equivalent to: Nyxathid"

Here are equivalent cards in black (B) sharing similar mechanics (power/toughness depend on opponent's hand), always including Nyxathid:
1. Nyxathid — Creature — Elemental, gets -1/-1 for each card in chosen opponent's hand.
2. Hand of Cruelty — Creature — Human Samurai, but does not care about hand size. Not equivalent.
3. Guul Draz Specter — Creature — Specter, gets +3/+3 if opponent has no cards in hand. Similar hand matters synergy.
4. Shrieking Affliction — Enchantment, deals damage if opponent has one or fewer cards in hand, but not a creature.
5. Infernal Denizen — Creature, not hand size dependent.

Closest black creatures with opponent’s hand-size-based power/toughness:

  • Nyxathid (best match, unique effect in black)
  • Nighthowler can be black but counts all graveyards, not hand.
  • Abyssal Nocturnus — Creature, gets +2/+2 per discarded card and fear until end of turn, not static.

Summary: Nyxathid is unique in black for this exact effect; nothing matches exactly, but Guul Draz Specter and Abyssal Nocturnus are the closest related hand-size matters black creatures.

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Abyssal Nocturnus

Guul Draz Specter

Hand of Cruelty

Infernal Denizen

Nighthowler

Nyxathid

Shrieking Affliction

Abyssal Nocturnus #43 Creature — Horror

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 2/2
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  • Creature
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  • Horror
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If your opponent discards any cards during their cleanup step to get down to the maximum hand size, the ability will trigger and players will receive priority. After that cleanup step ends, a new one will begin and Abyssal Nocturnus's effect will end. It won't carry over into the next turn.
  • If your opponent discards multiple cards to a single effect, this will trigger multiple times.

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    Legalities

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    Whenever an opponent discards a card, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

    Guul Draz Specter #137 Creature — Specter

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Specter
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

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    Legalities

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

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    Flying This creature gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

    Hand of Cruelty #71 Creature — Human Samurai

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Samurai
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Bushido Protection

    Rules

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    Legalities

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

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    Protection from white Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

    Infernal Denizen #136 Creature — Demon

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 8
    Power/Toughness: 5/7
    Types:
  • Creature
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  • Demon
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • You must sacrifice the Swamps if you can. You can’t choose not to pay if you have them.
  • You should always have one creature for your opponent to take (i.e. the Denizen). If by chance you have no creature for your opponent to take, then they don’t get one. Remember that taking a creature is optional so your opponent is not forced to take the Denizen.

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    Legalities

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

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    At the beginning of your upkeep,sacrificetwo Swamps. If you can't, tap this creature, and an opponent may gain control of a creature you control of their choice for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. : Gain control of target creature for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.

    Nighthowler #98 Enchantment Creature — Horror

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 0/0
    Types:
  • Enchantment
  • Creature
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  • Horror
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    Normal
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    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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    Legalities

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

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    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.

    Nyxathid #259 Creature — Elemental

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 7/7
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elemental
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • If a spell or ability causes the chosen player to draw cards and then discard cards, Nyxathid's power and toughness changes accordingly as that spell or ability is resolving. For example, if the chosen player has five cards in hand and a spell causes that player to draw two cards then discard two cards, Nyxathid will start out as 2/2, then become 1/1, 0/0, and finally 2/2. This is because cards are always drawn one at a time, but multiple cards may be discarded at once. Although Nyxathid momentarily had 0 toughness while that spell was resolving, it isn't put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action because state-based actions aren't checked until the spell has finished resolving.
  • In a multiplayer game, if the chosen player leaves the game, Nyxathid's second ability simply won't do anything anymore.
  • Nyxathid tracks the hand size of the chosen player even if that player ceases to be an opponent of its controller. (This could happen if that player gains control of Nyxathid, for example.)
  • Nyxathid's two abilities are linked: The second one refers only to the player chosen by the first one. If another creature becomes a copy of Nyxathid (due to Mirrorweave, for example), the second ability won't do anything because a player was never chosen as a result of the first ability. This is true even if a different ability allowed a player to be chosen as that creature entered.

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    Legalities

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

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    As this creature enters, choose an opponent. This creature gets -1/-1 for each card in the chosen player's hand.

    Shrieking Affliction #76 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Shrieking Affliction’s ability will trigger only if an opponent begins their upkeep with one or fewer cards in hand. The ability will check the number of cards in that player’s hand again when it tries to resolve. If that player has two or more cards in hand at that time, that player won’t lose life.

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    Legalities

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

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    At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.