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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: The Book of Vile Darkness

Equivalent cards in black (for The Book of Vile Darkness) that interact with life loss or zombies include:

  • Necromancer's Covenant (makes zombies from graveyard creatures)
  • Phyrexian Arena (ongoing life loss for value)
  • Liliana's Contract (life loss, card draw, alternate win condition)
  • Grave Betrayal (zombie synergy with opponents’ creatures)


Reason: These black cards provide similar life loss or zombie/alternate win effects.

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Grave Betrayal #67 Enchantment

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 7
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    Rules

  • Each creature you don't control that dies causes a delayed triggered ability to trigger at the beginning of the next end step. If there are multiple such abilities, you can put them on the stack in any order. The creatures will return to the battlefield one at a time as each ability resolves. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve.
  • Grave Betrayal doesn't overwrite any previous colors or types. Rather, it adds another color and another creature type.
  • If a creature you don't control dies during the end step, that creature won't return to the battlefield until the beginning of the next end step.
  • If the creature card leaves the graveyard before the delayed triggered ability resolves, it won't return to the battlefield. This is also true if the card leaves the graveyard and returns to the graveyard before that ability resolves.
  • If the creature is normally colorless, it will simply be black. It won't be both black and colorless.
  • In a multiplayer game, if more than one player controls a Grave Betrayal and a creature controlled by none of those players dies, each Grave Betrayal will create a delayed triggered ability at the beginning of the next end step. The first such ability to resolve will return the creature. Usually, this will be one controlled by the player furthest from the active player in turn order.
  • The phrase "with an additional +1/+1 counter on it" means that the creature enters with one more +1/+1 counter than it would normally enter with. It doesn't keep any counters it had on it when it died.

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    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 4.2 USD / 9.53 USD
    Cardmarket 2.64 EUR / 6.06 EUR
    Cardkingdom 4.49 USD / 7.99 USD
    Manapool 1.96 USD / 4.68 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1counteron it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

    Liliana's Contract #1844 Enchantment

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
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    Rules

  • If the second ability does trigger, but you no longer control four Demons with different names as the ability resolves, you won’t win the game.
  • If you don’t control four Demons with different names as your upkeep begins, the second ability of Liliana’s Contract won’t trigger. You can’t take any actions during your turn before your upkeep begins.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.15 USD
    Cardkingdom 5.99 USD
    Manapool 3.32 USD

    Legalities

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

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    When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

    Necromancer's Covenant #229 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
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    Zombie

    Rules

  • Necromancer’s Covenant grants lifelink to all Zombies you control, not just the tokens put onto the battlefield with its first ability.
  • The Zombie tokens are put onto the battlefield under your control.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.67 USD
    Cardmarket 0.82 EUR
    Manapool 0.26 USD

    Legalities

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

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    When this enchantment enters, exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled this way. Zombies you control have lifelink.

    Phyrexian Arena #2333 Enchantment

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 9.78 USD
    Cardmarket 19.37 EUR
    Cardkingdom 15.99 USD
    Manapool 20.81 USD

    Legalities

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

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    At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

    The Book of Vile Darkness #91p Legendary Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Zombie Vecna

    Rules

  • In some strange cases, you might make something into a copy of the Eye and/or Hand of Vecna and then exile that copy to activate The Book of Vile Darkness's ability. The ability that creates Vecna will look at the cards in exile, not the permanents on the battlefield, so it's possible to have Vecna gain different triggered abilities.
  • In the vast majority of cases, Vecna will gain the triggered ability printed on Hand of Vecna and the two triggered abilities printed on Eye of Vecna.
  • The Book of Vile Darkness has received an update to its Oracle text. Specifically, the triggered abilities that Vecna gains are part of its copiable values. This means any enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities it gains (such as the one from Eye of Vecna) will trigger.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.62 USD / 2.43 USD
    Cardmarket 1.49 EUR / 1.41 EUR
    Cardkingdom 7.99 USD / 2.49 USD
    Manapool 1.82 USD

    Legalities

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

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    At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. , Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

    Grave Betrayal Enchantment Normal - ~$5.19

    Liliana's Contract Enchantment Normal - ~$4.15

    Necromancer's Covenant Enchantment Normal - ~$0.58

    Phyrexian Arena Enchantment Normal - ~$16.49

    The Book of Vile Darkness Legendary Artifact Normal - ~$2.75

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