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"Find me cards equivalent to: Ruthless Sniper"

Cards similar to Ruthless Sniper (black creature, triggers on cycling/discard, penalizes enemies):
1. Archfiend of Ifnir – Black creature that puts -1/-1 counters on all creatures when you cycle or discard.
2. Defiler of Flesh – Black creature, less specific, but offers similar creature-based value for paying life/mana.
3. Bone Miser – Black in casting identity, draws/discards with additional discard value, but doesn’t put -1/-1 counters specifically.


Reason: Only Archfiend of Ifnir is truly close in both color and negative counter effect when discarding. Ruthless Sniper is quite unique for its effect among black creatures.

Found Cards

4 Results

Archfiend of Ifnir

Bone Miser

Defiler of Flesh

Ruthless Sniper

Archfiend of Ifnir #70 Creature — Demon

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Info

Color:
Identifies:
Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: 5/4
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Demon
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Cycling Flying

    Rules

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.38 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.4 EUR

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

    Bone Miser #87 Creature — Zombie Wizard

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Zombie

    Rules

  • If you discard a card as a cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, this creature’s triggered ability resolves before that spell or ability but after you’ve chosen targets for it. If you discard a card while a spell or ability is resolving, the triggered ability resolves after you’ve finished resolving that spell or ability.
  • This creature’s abilities are triggered abilities, not activated abilities. They don’t allow you to discard a card whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of discarding a card (such as cycling).
  • This creature’s second ability isn’t a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to. Notably, this means that you can’t pay a cost of “{2}, Discard a card” by discarding a land card and using the {B}{B} produced to pay for the {2}.

    • Prices

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    Manapool / 26.35 USD 24.18 USD
    Cardmarket 17.46 EUR / 21.4 EUR
    Cardkingdom 32.99 USD / 34.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 25.03 USD 23.79 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 youdiscarda creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever youdiscarda land card, add . Whenever youdiscarda noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

    Defiler of Flesh #90s Creature — Phyrexian Horror

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Info

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Menace

    Rules

  • Some players may make the mental shortcut that the Defilers effectively turn one of the colored mana symbols in the spell’s cost into a Phyrexian colored mana symbol. Despite the similarity in function, this ability does not cause the spells to have Phyrexian mana symbols in their costs. Sorry, Rage Extractor!
  • You may only pay the additional cost once per permanent spell.

    • Prices

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    Cardmarket 0.73 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD
    Manapool 1.08 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.03 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

    Ruthless Sniper #105 Creature — Human Archer

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: 1/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Archer
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    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.
  • While resolving Ruthless Sniper’s triggered ability, you can’t pay {1} multiple times to put more counters on creatures.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer / 0.46 USD 0.16 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.33 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Manapool / 0.45 USD 0.15 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 cycle ordiscarda card, you may pay . If you do, put a -1/-1counteron target creature.