Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Contagion

3BB · Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Fervent Mastery 3RRSorcery You may pay {2}{R}{R} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {2}{R}{R} cost was paid, an opponent discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards. Search your library for up to three cards, put them into your hand, shuffle, then discard three cards at random.
Sylvan Library 1GEnchantment At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Flash 1UInstant You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by up to {2}.
Eye of Duskmantle 5BBCreature — Eye Flying, lifelink You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost. 3/8
Treasonous Ogre 3RCreature — Ogre Shaman Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}. 2/3
Extract Brain XUBSorcery Target opponent chooses X cards from their hand. Look at those cards. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost.
Bloodthirsty Adversary 1RCreature — Vampire Haste When Bloodthirsty Adversary enters the battlefield, you may pay {2}{R} any number of times. When you pay this cost one or more times, put that many +1/+1 counters on Bloodthirsty Adversary, then exile up to that many target instant and/or sorcery cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard and copy them. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs. 2/2
Splendid Agony 2BInstant Distribute two -1/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.
Collector's Cage 1WArtifact Hideaway 5 (When this artifact enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Throne of Bone 1Artifact Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Page 14