---
target_card: Dire Tactics
mana_cost: "{W}{B}"
type_line: "Instant"
algorithm: "4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings"
canonical_url: https://avascry.com/similar/dire-tactics
json_api: https://avascry.com/similar/dire-tactics.json
---

# Cards Similar & Synergistic to Dire Tactics

- **Target Card:** [Dire Tactics](https://avascry.com/printing/dire-tactics-iko) (Instant) `{W}{B}`
- **Algorithm:** 4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings
- **JSON API:** https://avascry.com/similar/dire-tactics.json

## Top 31 Synergistic Matches

1. [**Death's Caress**](https://avascry.com/printing/deaths-caress-dka) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
2. [**Geth's Verdict**](https://avascry.com/printing/geths-verdict-nph) `{B}{B}` — *Instant*
3. [**Human Frailty**](https://avascry.com/printing/human-frailty-avr) `{B}` — *Instant*
4. [**Swords to Plowshares**](https://avascry.com/printing/swords-to-plowshares-ptc) `{W}` — *Instant*
5. [**Anguished Unmaking**](https://avascry.com/printing/anguished-unmaking-otp) `{1}{W}{B}` — *Instant*
6. [**Vraska's Contempt**](https://avascry.com/printing/vraskas-contempt-pxln) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
7. [**Exile into Darkness**](https://avascry.com/printing/exile-into-darkness-sok) `{4}{B}` — *Sorcery*
8. [**Exile**](https://avascry.com/printing/exile-all) `{2}{W}` — *Instant*
9. [**Thraben Heretic**](https://avascry.com/printing/thraben-heretic-ddq) `{1}{W}` — *Creature — Human Wizard*
10. [**Infernal Reckoning**](https://avascry.com/printing/infernal-reckoning-pm19) `{B}` — *Instant*
11. [**Avenger en-Dal**](https://avascry.com/printing/avenger-en-dal-nem) `{1}{W}` — *Creature — Human Spellshaper*
12. [**Death Cultist**](https://avascry.com/printing/death-cultist-roe) `{B}` — *Creature — Human Wizard*
13. [**Urborg Syphon-Mage**](https://avascry.com/printing/urborg-syphon-mage-tsp) `{2}{B}` — *Creature — Human Spellshaper*
14. [**Certain Death**](https://avascry.com/printing/certain-death-j22) `{5}{B}` — *Sorcery*
15. [**Last Breath**](https://avascry.com/printing/last-breath-2x2) `{1}{W}` — *Instant*
16. [**Necrotic Fumes**](https://avascry.com/printing/necrotic-fumes-stx) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery — Lesson*
17. [**Skirsdag Supplicant**](https://avascry.com/printing/skirsdag-supplicant-emn) `{2}{B}` — *Creature — Human Cleric*
18. [**Feed the Serpent**](https://avascry.com/printing/feed-the-serpent-khm) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
19. [**Mage Hunters' Onslaught**](https://avascry.com/printing/mage-hunters-onslaught-stx) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
20. [**Withering Torment**](https://avascry.com/printing/withering-torment-msc) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
21. [**Remorseless Punishment**](https://avascry.com/printing/remorseless-punishment-plst) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
22. [**Acolyte of Xathrid**](https://avascry.com/printing/acolyte-of-xathrid-m10) `{B}` — *Creature — Human Cleric*
23. [**March of Wretched Sorrow**](https://avascry.com/printing/march-of-wretched-sorrow-neo) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
24. [**Painbringer**](https://avascry.com/printing/painbringer-ody) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Human Minion*
25. [**Ob Nixilis's Cruelty**](https://avascry.com/printing/ob-nixiliss-cruelty-war) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
26. [**Final Death**](https://avascry.com/printing/final-death-thb) `{4}{B}` — *Instant*
27. [**Flay Essence**](https://avascry.com/printing/flay-essence-mh2) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
28. [**Strongarm Tactics**](https://avascry.com/printing/strongarm-tactics-ons) `{1}{B}` — *Sorcery*
29. [**Death in the Family**](https://avascry.com/printing/death-in-the-family-tmt) `{1}{B}` — *Instant*
30. [**Selfless Exorcist**](https://avascry.com/printing/selfless-exorcist-jud) `{3}{W}{W}` — *Creature — Human Cleric*
31. [**Cabal Patriarch**](https://avascry.com/printing/cabal-patriarch-ody) `{3}{B}{B}{B}` — *Legendary Creature — Human Wizard*