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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: River Kelpie

Cards equivalent to River Kelpie (blue creature, effects triggered by things entering graveyard or persist):

  • Secrets of the Dead (draws a card when you cast a spell from a graveyard)
  • Narfi, Betrayer King (reanimates from graveyard, blue/black)
  • Archfiend of Ifnir (triggers off cycling/discard, black, but cares about graveyard mechanics)
  • Dreadhorde Arcanist (casts cards from graveyard on attack, red, but hybrid with blue in some decks)

Closest blue-only to River Kelpie:

  • Secrets of the Dead (triggers card draw in a similar way when casting from graveyard)

Most similar effect for persist/undying/grave triggers:

  • Midnight Haunting (cares about creatures dying, white/black)
  • Cemetery Illuminator (triggers off cards in graveyard, blue)

Short summary: Nothing is exactly like River Kelpie in mono-blue, but Secrets of the Dead is closest. Kelpie is unique for repeatable draw on persist/undying.

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Archfiend of Ifnir #78 Creature — Demon

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: 5/4
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  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Demon
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cycling Flying

    Rules

  • An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.
  • An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.
  • If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.
  • Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.

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    Legalities

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

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    Flying Whenever you cycle ordiscardanother card, put a -1/-1counteron each creature your opponents control. Cycling (,Discardthis card: Draw a card.)

    Cemetery Illuminator #50s Creature — Spirit

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Spirit
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Card types that can be exiled from a graveyard include artifact, creature, enchantment, land, planeswalker, instant, and sorcery. Legendary, basic, and snow are supertypes, not card types. Human, Equipment, and Aura are subtypes, not card types.
  • Cemetery Illuminator's ability allows you to cast a spell that shares a card type with the exiled card, even if the card on top of the library doesn't. For example, if you've exiled an artifact card, you could cast The Omenkeel from the top of your library, even though it's the back face of the modal double-faced card Cosima, God of the Voyage, which isn't an artifact.

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    Legalities

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

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    Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile a card from a graveyard. You may look at the top card of your library any time. Once each turn, you may cast a spell from the top of your library if it shares a card type with a card exiled with this creature.

    Dreadhorde Arcanist #125 Creature — Zombie Wizard

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 1/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Wizard
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Trample

    Rules

  • If Dreadhorde Arcanist leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield to check whether the card is still a legal target.
  • 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 you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," 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 to cast the card.
  • If you cast the card, you do so as part of the resolution of Dreadhorde Arcanist's triggered ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on a card's type are ignored, and the spell will resolve before blockers are declared.
  • The instant or sorcery card you target must have mana value less than or equal to Dreadhorde Arcanist's power immediately after Dreadhorde Arcanist has attacked. Any other abilities that trigger when creatures you control attack won't have resolved yet.

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    Legalities

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

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    Trample Whenever this creature attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

    Midnight Haunting #82 Instant

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

    Rules

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    Legalities

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

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

    Narfi, Betrayer King #88376 Legendary Snow Creature — Zombie Wizard

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 4/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • Another snow Zombie creature you control will get only +1/+1 from Narfi's first ability.
  • Snow is a supertype, not a card type. It has no rules meaning or function by itself, but spells and abilities may refer to it.
  • Snow isn't a type of mana. If an effect says you may spend mana as though it were any type, you can't pay for {S} using mana that wasn't produced by a snow source.
  • Some cards have additional effects for each {S} spent to cast them. You can cast these spells even if you don't spend any snow mana to cast them; their additional effects simply won't do anything.
  • The Kaldheim set doesn't have any cards with mana costs that include {S}, but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs {1} less to cast, that reduction doesn't apply to any {S} costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include {S} in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs.
  • The {S} symbol is a generic mana symbol. It represents a cost that can be paid by one mana that was produced by a snow source. That mana can be any color or colorless.

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    Legalities

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    Other snow and Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. : Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

    River Kelpie #166 Creature — Beast

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Beast
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    Normal
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    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.

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    Legalities

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

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    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

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

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

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    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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.

    Archfiend of Ifnir Creature — Demon Normal - ~$3.1

    Cemetery Illuminator Creature — Spirit Normal - ~$1.81

    Dreadhorde Arcanist Creature — Zombie Wizard Normal - ~$1.5

    Midnight Haunting Instant Normal - ~$0.16

    Narfi, Betrayer King Legendary Snow Creature — Zombie Wizard Normal

    River Kelpie Creature — Beast Normal - ~$0.25

    Secrets of the Dead Enchantment Normal - ~$0.29

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