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"Find me cards equivalent to: Research Thief"

Equivalent cards to Research Thief (mono-blue, artifact creature, card draw when artifact creatures deal combat damage):
1. Psychella (Flash, flying, whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, investigate that many times)
2. Vedalken Humiliator (Blue, not an artifact—wizards, but interacts on combat)
3. Sharding Sphinx (Blue, artifact creature, makes Thopter tokens when artifact creatures deal combat damage)
4. Jace's Archivist (Blue, not artifact, wheels entire hand instead of drawing per damage)
5. Looter Il-Kor (Blue, draws/discards, not artifact creature)

Closest true equivalents: Psychella and Sharding Sphinx—they trigger from artifact creatures dealing combat damage, staying in color and synergy. None have exactly the same effect and typing as Research Thief.

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Jace's Archivist

Research Thief

Sharding Sphinx

Vedalken Humiliator

Jace's Archivist #2515 Creature — Vedalken Wizard

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

    Rules

  • If this ability causes a player to draw more cards than are left in their library, that player loses the game as a state-based action. If this ability causes all players to do this, the game is a draw.

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    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 11.99 USD 9.99 USD
    Cardmarket 7.65 EUR / 8.69 EUR
    Manapool / 9.63 USD 8.45 USD
    Tcgplayer 7.93 USD / 9.74 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , : Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

    Research Thief #97933 Artifact Creature — Moonfolk Wizard

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    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Moonfolk
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flash Flying

    Rules

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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

    Flash Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

    Sharding Sphinx #235 Artifact Creature — Sphinx

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Thopter

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • If combat damage is dealt to players by multiple artifact creatures you control (including, perhaps, Sharding Sphinx itself), Sharding Sphinx's ability will trigger that many times. You'll get that many Thopter tokens. You'll get just one token per creature, no matter how much combat damage that creature dealt.
  • The only difference between a colored artifact and a colorless artifact is, obviously, its color. Unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact requires colored mana to cast. Also unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact has a color in all zones. It will interact with cards that care about color. Other than that, a colored artifact behaves just like any other artifact. It will interact as normal with any card that cares about artifacts, such as Shatter or Arcbound Ravager.

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    Tcgplayer 0.27 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.22 EUR
    Manapool 0.25 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 an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

    Vedalken Humiliator #13 Creature — Vedalken Wizard

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    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 3/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Vedalken
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • All creatures your opponents control are affected by Vedalken Humiliator's ability, not just those controlled by the player it's attacking.
  • Any power- or toughness-modifying effects (those that give +N/+N, for example) and counters will apply to the creature's new base power and toughness, even if they started to apply before Vedalken Humiliator's ability resolved.
  • If you don't control three artifacts as Vedalken Humiliator's ability resolves, it has no effect. If you do, the effect continues to apply even if you lose control of Vedalken Humiliator or your artifacts later in the turn.
  • Vedalken Humiliator's ability affects only creatures your opponents control at the time it resolves. Creatures they begin to control later in the turn won't lose power, toughness, or abilities.
  • Vedalken Humiliator's ability overwrites all previous effects that set an affected creature's base power and toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply to a creature after the ability resolves will overwrite this effect.

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    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD
    Manapool 0.25 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.98 EUR 0.31 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Metalcraft — Whenever this creature attacks, if you control three or more artifacts, creatures your opponents control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn.