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"Find me cards equivalent to: Thieving Amalgam"

Equivalent cards to Thieving Amalgam (color: Black, similar effects: manifesting/milling/opponent's cards, life drain):
1. Nightmare Shepherd — Exiles your nontoken creatures when they die and makes 1/1 copies.
2. Gonti, Lord of Luxury — Exiles and lets you play opponent's cards.
3. Hostage Taker — Exiles opponent's creatures/artifacts and lets you cast them.
4. Kokusho, the Evening Star — Life drain/death trigger, also black creature.

None do exactly the same, but have strong synergy with manipulating opponents' cards or draining life, all in black. Thieving Amalgam is unique for consistent manifesting.

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Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Hostage Taker

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Nightmare Shepherd

Thieving Amalgam

Gonti, Lord of Luxury #1566 Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue

Variations: v1 v2
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Color:
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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 2/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Aetherborn
  • Rogue
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Deathtouch

    Rules

  • An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
  • Casting the card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
  • Gonti doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • If you leave the game, the card remains exiled face down indefinitely. No player may look at it.
  • You may look at and cast that card (and spend mana as though it were mana of any type to do so) even if Gonti leaves the battlefield. If another player gains control of Gonti, that player can't look at or cast the card, and you still can.
  • You pay the costs for the exiled card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost.
  • The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless. Snow mana is not a type of mana. Gonti, Lord of Luxury won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.

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    Tcgplayer 5.83 USD
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    Legalities

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

    Text

    Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Hostage Taker #231 Creature — Human Pirate

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Pirate
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners' graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist.
  • Hostage Taker has received errata to prevent it from targeting itself. The correct Oracle wording appears above.
  • If Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target permanent won't be exiled.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. You can't cast it.
  • If it's still in exile, the exiled card returns to the battlefield immediately after Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. Nothing happens between the two events, including state-based actions.
  • In a multiplayer game, if Hostage Taker's owner leaves the game while the card is still exiled and another player owns that card, the exiled card will return to the battlefield under its owner's control. Because the one-shot effect that returns the card isn't an ability that goes on the stack, it won't cease to exist along with the leaving player's spells and abilities on the stack.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spell or permanent cards you control from Hostage Taker's ability are exiled.
  • Once you begin to cast the exiled card, it's considered a new object. You'll control that spell and the permanent that spell becomes even if Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield.

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    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 creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

    Kokusho, the Evening Star #1528 Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Dragon
  • Spirit
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

    Nightmare Shepherd #315 Enchantment Creature — Demon

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Enchantment
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Demon
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
  • If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy is also a 1/1 and a Nightmare.
  • If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
  • If the token is a copy of a creature whose power and toughness are defined by an ability (usually printed as */* or similar), the token doesn't copy the ability that defines its power and toughness. It remains a 1/1 creature.
  • The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
  • The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it existed in the graveyard before it was exiled.

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

    Thieving Amalgam #150 aka. Snape Creature — Ape Snake

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 6/7
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Ape
  • Snake
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Manifest

    Abilities/Keywords

    Manifest

    Rules

  • If a creature you control but don't own dies at the same time that its owner leaves the game, Thieving Amalgam's last ability triggers. No player loses 2 life, but you gain 2 life.
  • If a creature you control but don't own dies at the same time that your life total becomes 0 or less, you lose the game before Thieving Amalgam's last ability can save you.
  • In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, the creatures you manifested with Thieving Amalgam's triggered ability are exiled.
  • In the Commander variant, you can produce mana that isn't of your commander's color identity if an effect lets you produce mana of that color or mana of any color, even though those symbols can't appear on cards in your deck. You may be able to turn a manifested creature card face up this way if it's not the same colors as your commander.
  • Your opponents can't look at the card they own that you manifested.

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    Cardmarket 0.35 EUR

    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 each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.