cache exists in db ManaHive.com - #1 Magic The Gathering Card Search Engine, Probably
BETA
Newest Sets: Avatar: The Last Airbender Marvel Universe Marvel's Spider-Man 2023 Heroes of the Realm Arena Anthology 1 Arena Anthology 2 Edge of Eternities Final Fantasy Pioneer Anthology 1 Tarkir: Dragonstorm

6 Cards Found

AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Phthisis

Equivalent cards to Phthisis in black that destroy creatures and set life loss based on power/toughness:
1. Blasphemous Act (red, similar board wipe; not black, so not fully equivalent)
2. Toxic Deluge (black, flexible board wipe; not single target, but scalable)
3. Tendrils of Corruption (black, deals damage equal to Swamps controlled, life gain)
4. Consuming Vapors (black, forces sacrifice and causes life loss equal to sacrificed creature’s toughness)

Most similar:
Profane Command (black, can kill creatures and cause opponent to lose life).


Reason:
Cards listed destroy creatures and/or have life loss based on creature stats, keeping to black mana. There’s no perfect replacement, but these are close in ability or intent.

Results:

Blasphemous Act #1998 Sorcery

Variations: v1 v2 v3

Info

Color:
Identifies:
Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 9
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Although players may respond to Blasphemous Act once it's been cast, once it's announced, they can't respond before the cost is calculated and paid.
  • Blasphemous Act's ability can't reduce the total cost to cast the spell below {R}.
  • The total cost to cast Blasphemous Act is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if there are three creatures on the battlefield, including one you can sacrifice to add {C}, the total cost of Blasphemous Act is {5}{R}. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Blasphemous Act). The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 24.99 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 costs less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

    Consuming Vapors #105 Sorcery

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rebound

    Rules

  • At the beginning of your upkeep, all delayed triggered abilities created by rebound effects trigger. You may handle them in any order. If you want to cast a card this way, you do so as part of the resolution of its delayed triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card's type (if it's a sorcery) are ignored. Other restrictions are not (such as the one from Rule of Law).
  • If a replacement effect would cause a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand to be put somewhere else instead of your graveyard (such as Leyline of the Void might), you choose whether to apply the rebound effect or the other effect as the spell resolves.
  • If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand doesn't resolve for any reason (due being countered by a spell like Cancel, or because all of its targets are illegal), rebound has no effect. The spell is simply put into your graveyard. You won't get to cast it again next turn.
  • If the targeted player doesn't sacrifice a creature (because the player didn't control any creatures or due to Tajuru Preserver, perhaps), you gain no life.
  • If you are unable to cast a card from exile this way, or you choose not to, nothing happens when the delayed triggered ability resolves. The card remains exiled for the rest of the game, and you won't get another chance to cast the card. The same is true if the ability is countered (due to Stifle, perhaps).
  • If you cast a card from exile this way, it will go to your graveyard when it resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered. It won't go back to exile.
  • If you cast a spell with rebound from anywhere other than your hand (such as from your graveyard due to Sins of the Past, from your library due to cascade, or from your opponent's hand due to Sen Triplets), rebound won't have any effect. If you do cast it from your hand, rebound will work regardless of whether you paid its mana cost (for example, if you cast it from your hand due to Maelstrom Archangel).
  • If you cast a spell with rebound from your hand and it resolves, it isn't put into your graveyard. Rather, it's exiled directly from the stack. Effects that care about cards being put into your graveyard won't do anything.
  • Rebound will have no effect on copies of spells because you don't cast them from your hand.
  • The sacrificed creature's last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its toughness.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD
    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.4 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

    Phthisis #129 Sorcery

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Suspend

    Rules

  • If the creature's power is negative, you still add its power and toughness to determine how much life is lost. If that total is negative, its controller doesn't gain or lose any life. For example, Phthisis destroying a -1/3 creature would cause a loss of 2 life. Pthisis destroying a -4/3 creature would cause no loss of life.
  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Phthisis tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. No player loses life. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), its controller does lose life.
  • Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.
  • Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.
  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.
  • If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.
  • Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.
  • The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.
  • When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.
  • You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.08 USD / 0.36 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR / 0.16 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness. Suspend 5— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a timecounter When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

    Profane Command #156 Sorcery

    Info

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

    Rules

  • The value chosen for X applies to each X in the spell's effect. You pay {X} only once.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD
    Cardmarket 0.31 EUR / 0.35 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.46 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

    Tendrils of Corruption #136 Instant

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Tendrils of Corruption tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't gain X life.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.22 USD / 1.87 USD
    Cardmarket 0.18 EUR / 0.79 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 1.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

    Toxic Deluge #1860 Sorcery

    Info

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

    Rules

  • All creatures on the battlefield when Toxic Deluge resolves are affected. Ones that enter the battlefield or become creatures later in the turn are not.
  • If you cast Toxic Deluge without paying its mana cost, you'll still choose a value for X and pay X life. This is because it doesn't have {X} in its mana cost.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 20.65 USD
    Cardmarket 18.57 EUR / 19.64 EUR
    Cardsphere 18.8 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

    Blasphemous Act Sorcery Normal - ~$24.99

    Consuming Vapors Sorcery Normal - ~$2.57

    Phthisis Sorcery Normal - ~$1.84

    Profane Command Sorcery Normal - ~$2.57

    Tendrils of Corruption Instant Normal - ~$2.23

    Toxic Deluge Sorcery Normal - ~$13.47

    Against the Odds: Infinite Warp Combo (Standard) What are the odds of warping our way into infinite life, mana, and drain...
    Weekly Update (Oct 05): Why Magic is How it Is in 2025 This week in MTG news: Why Magic is How it Is in 2025.
    Single Scoop: Iron Spider/Fizik is The New Steel Overseer Steel Overseer was great for Affinity of old but thanks to Iron Spider /...
    Much Abrew: Devoted to Louie (Pioneer) Did Gray Merchant of Asphodel just get its new best friend in Morlun, De...