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"Find me cards equivalent to: Xantcha, Sleeper Agent"

Closest equivalents to Xantcha, Sleeper Agent in BR (black/red) that involve gifting opponents creatures or similar mechanics:

  • Kaervek the Merciless—punishes opponents for actions, not gifting.
  • Garna, the Bloodflame—BR, not gifting or punishing directly.
  • Gonti, Lord of Luxury—enters under your control, but interacts with opponent's resources.
  • Alesha, Who Smiles at Death—BR, cares about reanimation, not gifting.

None are direct equivalents for the gift to opponent and let anyone activate an ability template, but all listed are legendary BR creatures with opponent-punishing or interaction mechanics.

Conclusion:
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent is unique in gifting itself to an opponent with an activatable ability. No direct equivalents exist within BR legendary creature space. Closest mechanics are Zur's Weirding (not a creature) or blue/red/black cards like Zedruu the Greathearted (not BR).

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Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Garna, the Bloodflame

Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Kaervek the Merciless

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Zedruu the Greathearted

Zur's Weirding

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death #1007 Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 3/2
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  • Creature
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  • Human
  • Warrior
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  • Alesha's triggered ability checks the card's power only in your graveyard. The creature will still be tapped and attacking if its power is greater than 2 after it's on the battlefield.
  • Although the returned creature is an attacking creature, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when it enters the battlefield attacking.
  • Any effects that say that the returned creature can't attack (such as that of Propaganda, or if the creature has defender) affect only the declaration of attackers. They won't stop the returned creature from entering the battlefield attacking.
  • While resolving Alesha's triggered ability, you can't pay the cost multiple times to return more than one creature card.
  • You choose which player or planeswalker the returned creature is attacking. It doesn't have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker Alesha is attacking.

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    Legalities

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    First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay . If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

    Garna, the Bloodflame #200 Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
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  • Human
  • Warrior
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    Flash

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  • Which creature cards to return to your hand is determined as Garna's triggered ability resolves. If Garna somehow finds its way into your graveyard before that, perhaps due to the "legend rule," it will be returned to your hand.

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    Legalities

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    Flash When Garna enters, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from anywhere this turn. Other creatures you control have haste.

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

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
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  • Aetherborn
  • Rogue
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    Deathtouch

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  • 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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    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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    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.

    Kaervek the Merciless #257 Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 5/4
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  • Creature
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  • Human
  • Shaman
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    Rules

  • Alternative costs, additional costs, and cost reductions don't change a spell's mana value. Its mana value is still based on its mana cost.
  • An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
  • For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.

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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

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    Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

    Xantcha, Sleeper Agent #C1 Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Minion

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
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  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Phyrexian
  • Minion
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  • If Xantcha can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped or having come under that player's control that turn), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, the player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.
  • If a player creates a token that's a copy of Xantcha, the player who creates the token is its owner, not the player under whose control it enters the battlefield. This is a change from previous rules.
  • The player who draws a card when Xantcha's last ability resolves is the player who activated the ability.
  • Xantcha's controller may activate its last ability. In this case, the same player loses 2 life and draws a card.
  • Xantcha's first ability is a replacement effect that modifies how it enters the battlefield, not a triggered ability. Players can't take actions (such as activating its last ability) while Xantcha's on the battlefield before it's controlled by another player.
  • In a multiplayer game, if Xantcha's owner leaves the game, Xantcha leaves the game with them. If Xantcha's controller leaves the game, Xantcha is exiled. This is a change from previous rulings due to Xantcha's updated wording.

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    Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls. : Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

    Zedruu the Greathearted #86186 Legendary Creature — Minotaur Monk

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/4
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  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Minotaur
  • Monk
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  • If an opponent leaves the game, all permanents you gave to them courtesy of Zedruu will return to your control.
  • If either the opponent or the permanent you control becomes an illegal target by the time Zedruu's last ability tries to resolve, the ability does nothing.
  • If you leave the game, all permanents you own leave the game with you.

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    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 gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of permanents you own that your opponents control. : Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

    Zur's Weirding #138 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • If a spell or ability causes more than one card to be drawn, draw the cards one at a time and deal with this replacement before drawing the next card.
  • If someone pays the cost, then the card was never drawn or discarded. It just gets put into the graveyard directly from the library.
  • This is a continuous replacement effect that modifies a draw.
  • When using Dredge with this, you have two choices. You can immediately replace the draw with Dredge, or you can apply Zur’s Weirding’s replacement. If the latter, you first resolve Zur’s Weirding’s ability, then if you’re going to draw the card, decide whether or not to replace that draw with Dredge.

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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

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    Players play with their hands revealed. If a player would draw a card, they reveal it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card.