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"Find me cards equivalent to: Vampire's Kiss"

Equivalent cards to Vampire's Kiss (black, sorcery, life drain, create tokens):
1. Alms of the Vein — Target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life (no tokens, but similar life swing).
2. Syphon Life — Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life (no tokens, similar life effect, retrace ability).
3. Vicious Rumors — Each opponent loses 1 life, you gain 1 life, plus additional effects (hand and graveyard interaction, slightly less impact).
4. Bloodchief's Thirst — Not equivalent, focuses on creature/planeswalker removal, but shares color and mana value.


Reason: Black sorceries that perform life drain directly are common, but creating two Blood tokens is unique to Vampire's Kiss. None fully duplicate both effects, but these provide similar core actions (drain/gain life at sorcery speed).

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Alms of the Vein

Bloodchief's Thirst

Syphon Life

Vampire's Kiss

Vicious Rumors

Alms of the Vein #98 Sorcery

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Madness

    Rules

  • A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
  • A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.
  • Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.
  • Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.
  • If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.
  • If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
  • If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
  • Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

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    Text

    Target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. Madness (If youdiscardthis card,discardit into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

    Bloodchief's Thirst #94 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Kicker

    Rules

  • If a creature or planeswalker on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.63 EUR 0.17 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.23 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.3 USD 0.21 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, insteaddestroytarget creature or planeswalker.

    Syphon Life #46 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Retrace

    Rules

  • A retrace card cast from your graveyard follows the normal timing rules for its card type.
  • Casting a card by using its retrace ability works just like casting any other spell, with two exceptions: You’re casting it from your graveyard rather than your hand, and you must discard a land card in addition to any other costs.
  • If the active player casts a spell that has retrace, that player may cast that card again after it resolves, before another player can remove the card from the graveyard. The active player has priority after the spell resolves, so they can immediately cast a new spell. Since casting a card with retrace from the graveyard moves that card onto the stack, no one else would have the chance to affect it while it’s still in the graveyard.
  • When a retrace card you cast from your graveyard resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered, it’s put back into your graveyard. You may use the retrace ability to cast it again.

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    Manapool / 0.62 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom / 1.99 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer / 1.09 USD 0.18 USD
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.54 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

    Vampire's Kiss #403 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Blood

    Rules

  • If the target player is an illegal target as this spell tries to resolve, you won't gain 2 life and won't create any Blood tokens.
  • 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.

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    Tcgplayer / 9.97 USD 1.13 USD
    Cardkingdom / 13.99 USD 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket 1.63 EUR / 5.9 EUR
    Manapool / 10.85 USD 0.72 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Create two Blood tokens. (They're artifacts with ", ,Discarda card,Sacrificethis token: Draw a card.")

    Vicious Rumors #89 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • As Vicious Rumors resolves, it deals 1 damage to each opponent, then the next opponent in turn order (or, if it’s an opponent’s turn, that opponent) chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then each other opponent in turn order does the same. Then the chosen cards are discarded at the same time. Next, each opponent puts the top card of their library into their graveyard at the same time. Finally, you gain 1 life.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Vicious Rumors causes the opposing team to lose 2 life, each of those players discards a card and puts the top card of their library into their graveyard, and you gain 1 life.

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    Tcgplayer 0.35 USD / 3.85 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.01 EUR 0.23 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 7.99 USD 0.59 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 3.25 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.