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"Find me cards equivalent to: Shadow Slice"

Equivalent cards to Shadow Slice (Black, Sorcery, deals life loss, cipher):
1. Paranoid Delusions
Sorcery, Cipher, but mills cards instead of life loss.
(No black sorcery does exactly the same as Shadow Slice with cipher, but this is close in form.)
2. Nightveil Specter (Not a sorcery, but notable: cipher fits best with Dimir cards from Gatecrash.)

Summary:
No exact black sorcery with cipher and lose life except Shadow Slice, but Paranoid Delusions is the closest cipher card (mill instead of life loss). Cipher is mostly blue/black, few deal direct life loss.

Found Cards

3 Results

Nightveil Specter

Paranoid Delusions

Shadow Slice

Nightveil Specter #222★ Creature — Specter

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 2/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Specter
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Nightveil Specter’s last ability applies to cards exiled with that specific Nightveil Specter, not any other creature named Nightveil Specter. You should keep cards exiled by different Nightveil Specters separate.
  • Playing a card exiled with Nightveil Specter follows all the normal rules for playing that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all timing restrictions, for example.
  • The card is exiled face up. All players may look at it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 1.05 EUR
    Cardkingdom 2.29 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.92 USD
    Manapool 0.76 USD

    Legalities

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    Text

    Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature.

    Paranoid Delusions #186 Sorcery

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cipher Mill

    Rules

  • If a creature with an encoded card deals combat damage to more than one player simultaneously (perhaps because some of the combat damage was redirected), the triggered ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. Each ability will create a copy of the exiled card and allow you to cast it.
  • If another player gains control of the creature, that player will control the triggered ability. That player will create a copy of the encoded card and may cast it.
  • If the creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card will no longer be encoded on any creature. It will stay exiled.
  • If the spell with cipher doesn’t resolve, none of its effects will happen, including cipher. The card will go to its owner’s graveyard and won’t be encoded on a creature.
  • If you choose not to cast the copy, or you can’t cast it (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are performed. You won’t get a chance to cast the copy at a later time.
  • If you want to encode the card with cipher onto a noncreature permanent such as a Keyrune that can turn into a creature, that permanent has to be a creature before the spell with cipher starts resolving. You can choose only a creature to encode the card onto.
  • The copy of the card with cipher is created in and cast from exile.
  • The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature it’s encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability won’t trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.
  • The spell with cipher is encoded on the creature as part of that spell’s resolution, just after the spell’s other effects. That card goes directly from the stack to exile. It never goes to the graveyard.
  • You cast the copy of the card with cipher during the resolution of the triggered ability. Ignore timing restrictions based on the card’s type.
  • You choose the creature as the spell resolves. The cipher ability doesn’t target that creature, although the spell with cipher may target that creature (or a different creature) because of its other abilities.

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    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.15 EUR / 0.36 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD / 0.34 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Manapool / 0.28 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

    Target player mills three cards. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

    Shadow Slice #77 Sorcery

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Cipher

    Rules

  • If a creature with an encoded card deals combat damage to more than one player simultaneously (perhaps because some of the combat damage was redirected), the triggered ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. Each ability will create a copy of the exiled card and allow you to cast it.
  • If another player gains control of the creature, that player will control the triggered ability. That player will create a copy of the encoded card and may cast it.
  • If the creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card will no longer be encoded on any creature. It will stay exiled.
  • If the spell with cipher doesn’t resolve, none of its effects will happen, including cipher. The card will go to its owner’s graveyard and won’t be encoded on a creature.
  • If you choose not to cast the copy, or you can’t cast it (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are performed. You won’t get a chance to cast the copy at a later time.
  • If you want to encode the card with cipher onto a noncreature permanent such as a Keyrune that can turn into a creature, that permanent has to be a creature before the spell with cipher starts resolving. You can choose only a creature to encode the card onto.
  • The copy of the card with cipher is created in and cast from exile.
  • The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature it’s encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability won’t trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.
  • The spell with cipher is encoded on the creature as part of that spell’s resolution, just after the spell’s other effects. That card goes directly from the stack to exile. It never goes to the graveyard.
  • You cast the copy of the card with cipher during the resolution of the triggered ability. Ignore timing restrictions based on the card’s type.
  • You choose the creature as the spell resolves. The cipher ability doesn’t target that creature, although the spell with cipher may target that creature (or a different creature) because of its other abilities.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.31 EUR
    Manapool / 0.23 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.07 USD / 0.26 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 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 opponent loses 3 life. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)