Best Mono-Black budget alternatives to Spreading Plague
Spreading Plague
$11.95 MarketCard Breakdown: Spreading Plague (Enchantment) acts as a key Board Wipe & Reset in competitive and casual EDH / Modern formats. At $11.95, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve comparable game effects for under $5.00.
Top Vector-Ranked Budget Swaps
Seal of Doom
(Enchantment)
Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Matches Spreading Plague's Enchantment card type and costs 2 less mana to cast (3 MV vs 5 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #hate-regenerate, #removal-creature, #removal-destroy.
Murderous Betrayal
(Enchantment)
{B}{B}, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Matches Spreading Plague's Enchantment card type and costs 2 less mana to cast (3 MV vs 5 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #hate-regenerate, #removal-creature, #removal-destroy.
Perish
(Sorcery)
Destroy all green creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Functions as a Sorcery alternative to Spreading Plague's Enchantment and costs 2 less mana to cast (3 MV vs 5 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #hate-regenerate, #removal-creature, #removal-destroy.
Tsabo's Assassin
(Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Assassin)
{T}: Destroy target creature if it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Functions as a Creature alternative to Spreading Plague's Enchantment and costs 1 less mana to cast (4 MV vs 5 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #hate-color-share, #hate-regenerate, #removal-creature.
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