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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: River Kelpie

Equivalent cards include:

  • Ethereal Investigator (draws a card on creature ETB)
  • Secrets of the Dead (draws a card on spell flashback)
  • Midnight Haunting (related, but creates tokens on flashback)


Reason: These blue cards have abilities dealing with drawing cards or recursion and care about things returning from graveyard or spells played from graveyard, similar to River Kelpie.

Results:

Ethereal Investigator #12 Creature — Spirit

Variations: v1 v2

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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 2/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Spirit
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Spirit Clue

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Investigate

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.33 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.42 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

    Flying When this creature enters, investigate X times, where X is the number of opponents you have. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ",Sacrificethis token: Draw a card.") Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

    Midnight Haunting #82 Instant

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Tokens:
    Spirit

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.08 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

    Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

    River Kelpie #166 Creature — Beast

    Info

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Persist

    Rules

  • If River Kelpie and another permanent are each put onto the battlefield from a graveyard at the same time, River Kelpie's first ability will trigger twice. (It will see the other permanent entering.)
  • If you cast River Kelpie itself from your graveyard (by using Yawgmoth's Will, for example), neither ability triggers. The first ability doesn't trigger because River Kelpie is put onto the stack; the second ability doesn't trigger because it works only while River Kelpie is already on the battlefield.
  • If you cast another artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell from a graveyard, only the second ability triggers. That's because the card is put onto the stack, not onto the battlefield.
  • If you play a land card from a graveyard (by using Crucible of Worlds, for example), only the first ability triggers. That's because the land (which isn't a spell) is put directly onto the battlefield from the graveyard.
  • River Kelpie doesn't give you the ability to cast spells from graveyards. Its second ability merely triggers whenever a spell is cast this way (by using Memory Plunder, for example).
  • If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
  • If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
  • If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they'll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.
  • If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can't return to the battlefield.
  • If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player's persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player's persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.
  • The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.
  • When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD
    Cardmarket 0.27 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.15 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

    Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1counteron it.)

    Secrets of the Dead #95 Enchantment

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Secrets of the Dead’s triggered ability resolves before the spell you cast from your graveyard does.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.36 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.42 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

    Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

    Ethereal Investigator Creature — Spirit Normal - ~$2.6

    Midnight Haunting Instant Normal - ~$2.47

    River Kelpie Creature — Beast Normal - ~$2.54

    Secrets of the Dead Enchantment Normal - ~$2.65

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