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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Syphon Essence

Equivalent cards to Syphon Essence (blue/black instant counterspells with a lifegain effect) include:

  • Essence Extraction (Black, destroys a creature and you gain 3 life)
  • Faerie Trickery (Blue, counters a non-Faerie spell, but no life gain)
  • Essence Scatter (Blue, counters creature spells, no life gain)
  • Negate (Blue, counters noncreature spells, no life gain)

Closest in mechanics: Essence Extraction (same colors, similar effect: removal + 3 life), though it's not a counterspell. There are few direct equivalents with both counter and lifegain. Duskmantle Seer (UB, life loss/gain interaction, not counter).


Reason: No direct UB counterspell with lifegain exists; above are color- and effect-adjacent.

Results:

Duskmantle Seer #159 aka. Party Bob Creature — Vampire Wizard

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

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • The cards put into hands this way are not “drawn.” For example, you couldn’t reveal a card with miracle put into your hand this way (but it also won’t count as the first card you’ve drawn this turn either).
  • The loss of life is simultaneous. If this causes both players to end up at 0 or less life, the game will be a draw. In a multiplayer game, players with 0 or less life will lose the game.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.29 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardmarket 0.29 EUR / 0.96 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 1.99 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.87 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand.

    Essence Extraction #80 Instant

    Info

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • If the target creature becomes an illegal target, Essence Extraction doesn't resolve and you don't gain life.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.15 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.18 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Essence Extraction deals 3 damage to target creature and you gain 3 life.

    Essence Scatter #60 Instant

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • A "creature spell" is any spell with the creature type, even if it has other types such as artifact or enchantment.

    • Prices

    Seller Price

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target creature spell.

    Faerie Trickery #62 Kindred Instant — Faerie

    Info

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Kindred
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
  • Faerie
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Echoes of Eternity is an Eldrazi (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Eldrazi card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.
  • This cards was originally printed with the "tribal" card type. That card type has been replaced with "kindred". This change does not affect the gameplay function of this card.
  • While it appears only on cards that already have other card types, kindred is a card type and will be counted by effects that refer to the number of card types among cards in a zone.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.57 USD / 8.93 USD
    Cardmarket 0.25 EUR / 2.28 EUR
    Manapool 0.18 USD / 3.63 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target non-Faerie spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

    Negate #8 Instant

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • A "creature spell" is any spell with the creature type, even if it has other types such as artifact or enchantment.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 18.67 USD
    Cardmarket 4.72 EUR / 9.7 EUR
    Cardkingdom 16.99 USD
    Manapool 12.18 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target noncreature spell.

    Syphon Essence #84 Instant

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Tokens:
    Blood

    Rules

  • If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
  • Some spells that instruct you to create a Blood token require targets. You can't cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won't resolve and you won't create any Blood tokens. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you'll do as much as possible, including creating Blood tokens.
  • Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
  • You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.06 USD / 0.04 USD
    Cardmarket 0.03 EUR / 0.09 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 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

    Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with ", ,Discarda card,Sacrificethis token: Draw a card.")

    Duskmantle Seer Creature — Vampire Wizard Normal - ~$0.82

    Essence Extraction Instant Normal - ~$0.2

    Essence Scatter Instant Normal

    Faerie Trickery Kindred Instant — Faerie Normal - ~$2.64

    Negate Instant Normal - ~$12.45

    Syphon Essence Instant Normal - ~$0.17

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