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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Showdown of the Skalds

Equivalent cards in RW (red/white) or similar effects:
1. Experimental Frenzy — Red, lets you play cards from the top of your library.
2. Cathartic Reunion — Red, card draw/filter.
3. Escape to the Wilds — Red/Green, impulse draw and play extra lands (not RW but close effect).

There are few RW cards that offer card advantage and counters together like Showdown of the Skalds. Most alternatives in RW focus just on drawing or exiling cards to play. Reckless Impulse (red) is the closest single-effect, but lacks the +1/+1 counter synergy.


Reason: The unique combination of card advantage and counters in Showdown of the Skalds is rare in RW.

Results:

Cathartic Reunion #2 Sorcery

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • Because discarding two cards is an additional cost, you can't cast Cathartic Reunion if you don't have at least two other cards in hand.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.27 USD / 0.97 USD
    Cardmarket 0.28 EUR / 0.8 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.44 USD

    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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    As an additional cost to cast this spell,discardtwo cards. Draw three cards.

    Escape to the Wilds #1916 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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  • Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • Escape to the Wilds doesn't change when you can play the exiled cards. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If you exile a land card, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining.
  • If you don't play a card exiled this way, it remains in exile.
  • The additional land that you play doesn't have to be from among the exiled cards.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 8.59 USD
    Cardkingdom 9.99 USD / 8.49 USD
    Cardsphere 7 USD

    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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    Exile the top five cards of your library. You may play cards exiled this way until the end of your next turn. You may play an additional land this turn.

    Experimental Frenzy #99p Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • Enchantment
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  • Experimental Frenzy lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don’t have priority. This action doesn’t use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.
  • If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can’t look at the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can’t look at the next one until you’re done paying for that spell.
  • You can play a land card on top of your library only if you have available land plays remaining.
  • You can’t cast spells or play lands from your hand, but you may take other actions with those cards (such as discarding them to activate their cycling or bloodrush abilities).
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the cards you play from your library.
  • You’ll still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.43 USD / 0.57 USD
    Cardmarket 0.27 EUR / 0.92 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.38 USD

    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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    You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. You can't play lands or cast spells from your hand. :Destroythis enchantment.

    Reckless Impulse #VOW-174 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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  • You must still pay all costs to cast those spells and follow normal casting permissions. For example, if one of the exiled cards is a sorcery, this effect doesn't allow you to cast it during an opponent's turn.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.41 USD
    Cardsphere 0.35 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

    Showdown of the Skalds #229s Enchantment — Saga

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • Enchantment
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  • Saga
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    Saga
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  • A chapter ability doesn’t trigger if a lore counter is put on a Saga that already had a number of lore counters greater than or equal to that chapter’s number. For example, the third lore counter put on a Saga causes the chapter III ability to trigger, but chapters I and II won’t trigger again.
  • Any cards you don’t play by the end of your next turn will remain exiled.
  • As a Saga enters the battlefield, its controller puts a lore counter on it. As your precombat main phase begins (immediately after your draw step), you put another lore counter on each Saga you control. Putting a lore counter on a Saga in either of these ways doesn’t use the stack.
  • Each symbol on the left of a Saga’s text box represents a chapter ability. A chapter ability is a triggered ability that triggers when a lore counter that is put on the Saga causes the number of lore counters on the Saga to become equal to or greater than the ability’s chapter number. Chapter abilities are put onto the stack and may be responded to.
  • If multiple chapter abilities trigger at the same time, their controller puts them on the stack in any order. If any of them require targets, those targets are chosen as you put the abilities on the stack, before any of those abilities resolve.
  • Once a chapter ability has triggered, the ability on the stack won’t be affected if the Saga gains or loses counters, or if it leaves the battlefield.
  • Once the number of lore counters on a Saga is greater than or equal to the greatest number among its chapter abilities, the Saga’s controller sacrifices it as soon as its chapter ability has left the stack, most likely by resolving or being countered. This state-based action doesn’t use the stack.
  • Playing a card this way follows the normal rules for playing the card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all applicable timing rules. For example, if one of the cards is a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.
  • Removing lore counters won’t cause a previous chapter ability to trigger. If lore counters are removed from a Saga, the appropriate chapter abilities will trigger again when the Saga receives more lore counters.
  • The cards you exile because of the chapter I ability are exiled face up.
  • Under normal circumstances, you can play a land from among the exiled cards only if you haven’t played a land yet that turn.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 2.04 USD
    Cardmarket 1.64 EUR / 4.63 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lorecounterSacrificeafter III.) I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1counteron target creature you control.

    Cathartic Reunion Sorcery Normal - ~$0.55

    Escape to the Wilds Sorcery Normal - ~$8.52

    Experimental Frenzy Enchantment Normal - ~$0.58

    Reckless Impulse Sorcery Normal - ~$0.38

    Showdown of the Skalds Enchantment — Saga Saga - ~$2.95

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