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
Gavi, Nest Warden 2URWLegendary Creature — Human Shaman You may pay {0} rather than pay the cycling cost of the first card you cycle each turn. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 red and white Dinosaur Cat creature token. 2/5
Numai Outcast 3BCreature — Human Samurai Bushido 2 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.) {B}, Pay 5 life: Regenerate Numai Outcast. 1/1
North Star 4Artifact {4}, {T}: For one spell this turn, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to pay that spell's mana cost. (Additional costs are still paid normally.)
Withering Boon 1BInstant As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.
Yahenni's Expertise 2BBSorcery All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv 3RLegendary Planeswalker — Sarkhan [+1]: Dragon cards in your hand perpetually gain "This spell costs {1} less to cast," and "You may pay {X} rather than pay this spell's mana cost, where X is its mana value." [+1]: Conjure a card named Shivan Dragon into your hand. [−2]: Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv deals 3 damage to target creature. Loyalty 4
Dragon-Kami's Egg Enchantment Creature — Egg Whenever Dragon-Kami's Egg or a Dragon you control dies, you may cast a creature spell from among cards you own in exile with hatching counters on them without paying its mana cost. 0/1
Fury of the Horde 5RRSorcery You may exile two red cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Frontline Medic 2WCreature — Human Cleric Battalion — Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with {X} in its mana cost unless its controller pays {3}. 3/3
Howltooth Hollow Land Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Howltooth Hollow enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if each player has no cards in hand.
Page 15