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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Secrets of the Dead

Equivalent cards to Secrets of the Dead (blue enchantment, draws a card on casting from graveyard):

  • River Kelpie
  • Witness the Future (similar recursion/draw theme)
  • Jace's Sanctum (draw with spells, not just graveyard)
  • Archmage Emeritus (draws on casting spells, not just from graveyard)

Closest direct equivalents are River Kelpie and Archmage Emeritus for same color and effect type.

Results:

Archmage Emeritus #295 Creature — Human Wizard

Variations: v1 v2 v3

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell.
  • For example, if you control Archmage Emeritus and cast an instant or sorcery spell, Archmage Emeritus's magecraft ability will trigger and you will draw a card.
  • If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger.
  • If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect.
  • Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 4.77 USD / 8.21 USD
    Cardmarket 4.82 EUR / 8.09 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.99 USD / 12.99 USD
    Cardsphere 4.3 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

    Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

    Jace's Sanctum #61 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • If there are additional costs to cast an instant or sorcery spell, apply those before applying cost reductions.
  • Jace’s Sanctum can reduce alternative costs such as miracle or overload costs.
  • Jace’s Sanctum’s scry ability will resolve before the instant or sorcery spell that caused it to trigger.
  • The first ability of Jace’s Sanctum can’t reduce the colored mana requirement of an instant or sorcery spell.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.59 USD / 3.75 USD
    Cardmarket 0.87 EUR / 1.99 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.99 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.78 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

    Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

    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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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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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.

    • 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

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    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.

    Witness the Future #357 Sorcery

    Info

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

  • If the player is an illegal target as Witness the Future resolves, the library won't be shuffled and any targeted cards remain in the graveyard.
  • If you choose zero target cards or the cards are illegal targets as Witness the Future resolves, the target player will still shuffle their library.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.15 USD / 0.65 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR / 0.27 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 1.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.11 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 shuffles up to four target cards from their graveyard into their library. You look at the top four cards of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

    Archmage Emeritus Creature — Human Wizard Normal - ~$6.68

    Jace's Sanctum Enchantment Normal - ~$2.96

    River Kelpie Creature — Beast Normal - ~$2.54

    Secrets of the Dead Enchantment Normal - ~$2.65

    Witness the Future Sorcery Normal - ~$1.98

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