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
Underworld Coinsmith WBEnchantment Creature — Human Cleric Constellation — Whenever Underworld Coinsmith or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. {W}{B}, Pay 1 life: Each opponent loses 1 life. 2/2
Hormagaunt Horde XGCreature — Tyranid Ravenous (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Endless Swarm — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return Hormagaunt Horde from your graveyard to your hand. 1/1
Merfolk Seer 2UCreature — Merfolk Wizard When Merfolk Seer dies, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, draw a card. 2/2
Leyline of Lightning 2RREnchantment If Leyline of Lightning is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, Leyline of Lightning deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Rage Extractor 4R/PArtifact ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Whenever you cast a spell with {P} in its mana cost, Rage Extractor deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.
March of Swirling Mist XUInstant As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Protection Racket 2BEnchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, repeat the following process for each opponent in turn order. Reveal the top card of your library. That player may pay life equal to that card's mana value. If they do, exile that card. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Hero of Leina Tower GCreature — Human Warrior Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Hero of Leina Tower, you may pay {X}. If you do, put X +1/+1 counters on Hero of Leina Tower. 1/1
Talent of the Telepath 2UUSorcery Target opponent reveals the top seven cards of their library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the rest into their graveyard. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells from among the revealed cards instead of one.
Indulgent Tormentor 3BBCreature — Demon Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life. 5/3
Page 88