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

Equivalent black cards that create powerful tokens or have exile/graveyard synergy:
1. Dreadhorde Invasion — Creates zombie army tokens, synergy with losing life.
2. Necromancer's Covenant — Makes zombies from exiled creatures.
3. Liliana, Death's Majesty — Creates zombie tokens and interacts with graveyards.


Reason: All are black cards that transform or create tokens with graveyard focus, similar in theme to The Book of Vile Darkness.

Results:

Dreadhorde Invasion #86 Enchantment

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Zombie Army

    Abilities/Keywords

    Amass

    Rules

  • If the token's power changes later in the turn after it has attacked, including while Dreadhorde Invasion's second ability is on the stack, it won't cause the token to gain or lose lifelink.
  • The power of the Zombie token is checked only immediately after it attacks. Any other abilities that trigger when creatures you control attack won't have resolved yet.
  • Amass Orcs works the same way, except you create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token if you don't control an Army. If the Army creature you chose isn't already an Orc, it becomes an Orc in addition to its other types. By combining cards with amass Orcs and amass Zombies, you can end up with an Orc Zombie Army.
  • Amass abilities are now written as "amass [subtype] N." Previous cards with amass have received errata to say "amass Zombies N."
  • If you don't control an Army, the Zombie Army token you create enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature before receiving counters. Any abilities that trigger when a creature with a certain power enters the battlefield, such as that of Mentor of the Meek, will see the token enter as a 0/0 creature before it gets +1/+1 counters.
  • In the rare case that you control multiple Army creatures (perhaps because you played a creature with changeling) while you amass Zombies, you choose which of your Army creatures to put the +1/+1 counters on. If that creature isn't a Zombie, it becomes a Zombie in addition to its other types.
  • Some cards refer to the "amassed Army." That means the Army creature you chose to receive counters, even if no counters were placed on it for some reason.
  • Some cards that cause you to amass Zombies also provide bonuses to "Zombie tokens." These affect any token that happens to be a Zombie, not just a Zombie Army you've amassed.
  • To amass Zombies N, if you don't control an Army creature, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token. Then you choose an Army creature you control and put N +1/+1 counters on it. If that Army isn't already a Zombie, it becomes a Zombie in addition to its other types.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.46 USD / 3.77 USD
    Cardmarket 0.42 EUR / 2.53 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.65 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1counteron an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

    Liliana, Death's Majesty #97s Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Planeswalker
    • SubTypes:
  • Liliana
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Zombie

    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • A creature that is a Zombie and has other types, such as a Zombie Jackal, isn't a non-Zombie creature.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 10.32 USD
    Cardmarket 9.61 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text


    +1 Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.Milltwo cards.
    −3 Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
    −7Destroyall non-Zombie creatures.

    Necromancer's Covenant #229 Enchantment

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    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

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.65 USD
    Cardmarket 0.6 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.81 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.

    The Book of Vile Darkness #91p Legendary Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    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 1.45 USD / 1.58 USD
    Cardmarket 1.58 EUR / 1.45 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.84 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.

    Dreadhorde Invasion Enchantment Normal - ~$1.57

    Liliana, Death's Majesty Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana Normal - ~$9.97

    Necromancer's Covenant Enchantment Normal - ~$0.69

    The Book of Vile Darkness Legendary Artifact Normal - ~$1.84

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