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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Passionate Archaeologist

Equivalent red cards to Passionate Archaeologist (Commander damage triggers, burn, or exile bonuses):
1. Vial Smasher the Fierce — Deals damage when you cast spells from the command zone.
2. Chandra, Awakened Inferno — Deals damage over time and on cast.
3. Torbran, Thane of Red Fell — Increases noncombat damage from red sources.
4. Neheb, the Eternal — Rewards for dealing damage.

These all interact with dealing damage or commander-related triggers in red. Passionate Archaeologist specifically burns based on mana spent on your commander, so none are exact, but these are close in color and functionality.

Results:

Chandra, Awakened Inferno #127s Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 6
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Planeswalker
    • SubTypes:
  • Chandra
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Chandra, Awakened Inferno Emblem

    Rules

  • A player may have more than one of Chandra's emblems. Each one's ability triggers separately.
  • A spell or ability that counters spells can still target Chandra. When that spell or ability resolves, Chandra won't be countered, but any additional effects of that spell or ability will still happen.
  • Emblems aren't permanents and can't be exiled or destroyed. Once you have an emblem, there's no way to remove it.
  • If Chandra's last ability doesn't deal damage (most likely because the damage has been prevented in some way), the target won't be exiled if it would die.
  • If you leave a multiplayer game, your opponents keep any emblems Chandra gave them. Each opponent owns the emblem Chandra gives them. In multiplayer, your opponents continue to burn after you and Chandra leave the game.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Chandra's first ability grants an emblem to each opponent. The opposing team will be dealt 1 damage twice during their upkeep.
  • The ability of Chandra's emblem triggers at the beginning of the upkeep of the player who gets the emblem, not the upkeep of Chandra's controller.
  • The replacement effect of Chandra's last ability will exile the target creature or planeswalker if it would die this turn for any reason, not just due to lethal damage.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 23.75 USD
    Cardmarket 14.28 EUR
    Cardkingdom 42.99 USD
    Manapool 14.84 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    This spell can't be countered.
    +2 Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you."
    −3 Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature. [−X]: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

    Neheb, the Eternal #104s Legendary Creature — Zombie Minotaur Warrior

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 4/6
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Minotaur
  • Warrior
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Afflict

    Rules

  • Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it's not damage or combat damage.
  • Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won't deal combat damage in time to save that player.
  • Because it triggers at the beginning of a phase, Neheb's last ability isn't a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be countered by effects that interact with triggered abilities, such as that of Nimble Obstructionist.
  • Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life.
  • If an opponent loses life and subsequently loses the game before your postcombat main phase, Neheb's last ability counts that loss of life.
  • If an opponent loses life but Neheb leaves the battlefield before your postcombat main phase begins, its last ability doesn't trigger.
  • If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once.
  • If you somehow have more than two main phases in a turn, each main phase after your first one is a postcombat main phase, and Neheb's last ability triggers at the beginning of each of them.
  • Neheb's ability checks only how much life opponents lost during the turn, not by how much their life total decreased compared to the start of the turn. For example, if an opponent lost 2 life and then gained 8 life before your postcombat main phase, you'll add {R}{R}.
  • You get a postcombat main phase even if no creatures attacked during a turn. Neheb's last ability will trigger.
  • If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker's controller is the defending player. If a creature is attacking a battle, that battle's protector is the defending player.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 15.88 USD
    Cardmarket 9.9 EUR
    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD
    Manapool 18.75 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

    Passionate Archaeologist #2220 Legendary Enchantment — Background

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
  • Background
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Rules

  • An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
  • Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
  • Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
  • If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
  • If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
  • If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
  • If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
  • If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
  • Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
  • You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 12.59 USD
    Cardmarket 16.86 EUR / 20.28 EUR
    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD / 24.99 USD
    Manapool 14.49 USD / 20.31 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."

    Torbran, Thane of Red Fell #147s Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Dwarf
  • Noble
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If another effect modifies how much damage your red source would deal, including preventing some of it, the player being dealt damage or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage chooses an order in which to apply those effects. If all of the damage is prevented, Torbran's effect no longer applies.
  • If damage dealt by a source you control is being divided or assigned among multiple permanents an opponent controls or among an opponent and one or more permanents they control, divide the original amount before adding 2. For example, if you attack with a 5/5 red creature with trample and your opponent blocks with a 2/2 creature, you can assign 2 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player. These amounts are then modified to 4 and 5, respectively.
  • The additional 2 damage is dealt by the same source as the original source of damage. The damage isn't dealt by Torbran unless Torbran is the original source of damage.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 5.74 USD
    Cardmarket 2.62 EUR
    Cardkingdom 7.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    If a red source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

    Vial Smasher the Fierce #1202 Legendary Creature — Goblin Berserker

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Goblin
  • Berserker
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Partner

    Rules

  • Vial Smasher the Fierce is banned as a commander in Duel Commander format, but it may be part of your deck.
  • An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
  • Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
  • For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.
  • If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
  • If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can only include cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities. If Falthis and Kediss are your commanders, your deck may contain cards with black and/or red in their color identity, but not cards with green, white, or blue.
  • Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined.
  • The opponent to be dealt damage is chosen at random while the triggered ability is resolving. After that opponent is chosen, you choose whether damage will be dealt to that player or to a planeswalker they control, and if so, which planeswalker. No player may take any actions between the damage recipient being chosen and the damage being dealt.
  • To have two commanders, both must have the partner ability as the game begins. Losing the ability during the game doesn't cause either to cease to be your commander.
  • Vial Smasher has to be on the battlefield at the moment you cast your first spell. If that spell causes Vial Smasher to leave the battlefield as an additional cost to cast it, Vial Smasher's ability can't trigger. If that spell is Vial Smasher itself, Vial Smasher's ability can't trigger.
  • Vial Smasher's triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. If Vial Smasher's ability resolves and the spell that caused it to trigger has been countered, use that spell's mana value as it last existed on the stack to determine how much damage is dealt.
  • Vial Smasher's triggered ability triggers when you cast your first spell each turn, regardless of whose turn it is.
  • You can choose two commanders with partner that are the same color or colors. In Commander Draft, you can even choose two of the same commander with partner if you drafted them. If you do this, make sure you keep the number of times you've cast each from the command zone clear for "commander tax" purposes.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 17.15 USD / 17.02 USD
    Cardmarket 14.94 EUR / 15.21 EUR
    Cardkingdom 17.99 USD
    Manapool 17.71 USD / 15.47 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 cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

    Chandra, Awakened Inferno Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra Normal - ~$23.97

    Neheb, the Eternal Legendary Creature — Zombie Minotaur Warrior Normal - ~$17.13

    Passionate Archaeologist Legendary Enchantment — Background Normal - ~$19.07

    Torbran, Thane of Red Fell Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble Normal - ~$5.28

    Vial Smasher the Fierce Legendary Creature — Goblin Berserker Normal - ~$16.5

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