---
target_card: Painbringer
mana_cost: "{2}{B}{B}"
type_line: "Creature — Human Minion"
algorithm: "4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings"
canonical_url: https://avascry.com/similar/painbringer
json_api: https://avascry.com/similar/painbringer.json
---

# Cards Similar & Synergistic to Painbringer

- **Target Card:** [Painbringer](https://avascry.com/printing/painbringer-ody) (Creature — Human Minion) `{2}{B}{B}`
- **Algorithm:** 4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings
- **JSON API:** https://avascry.com/similar/painbringer.json

## Top 31 Synergistic Matches

1. [**Haunting Misery**](https://avascry.com/printing/haunting-misery-wth) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
2. [**Chill Haunting**](https://avascry.com/printing/chill-haunting-scg) `{1}{B}` — *Instant*
3. [**Cabal Patriarch**](https://avascry.com/printing/cabal-patriarch-ody) `{3}{B}{B}{B}` — *Legendary Creature — Human Wizard*
4. [**Screams of the Damned**](https://avascry.com/printing/screams-of-the-damned-ody) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Enchantment*
5. [**Black Sun's Twilight**](https://avascry.com/printing/black-suns-twilight-pone) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
6. [**Festive Funeral**](https://avascry.com/printing/festive-funeral-eld) `{4}{B}` — *Instant*
7. [**Weigh Down**](https://avascry.com/printing/weigh-down-khm) `{B}` — *Sorcery*
8. [**Cabal Torturer**](https://avascry.com/printing/cabal-torturer-tor) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Human Minion*
9. [**Minister of Pain**](https://avascry.com/printing/minister-of-pain-dtk) `{2}{B}` — *Creature — Human Shaman*
10. [**Selfless Exorcist**](https://avascry.com/printing/selfless-exorcist-jud) `{3}{W}{W}` — *Creature — Human Cleric*
11. [**Martyr of Bones**](https://avascry.com/printing/martyr-of-bones-csp) `{B}` — *Creature — Human Wizard*
12. [**Phyrexian Plaguelord**](https://avascry.com/printing/phyrexian-plaguelord-td2) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Phyrexian Carrier*
13. [**Cemetery Desecrator**](https://avascry.com/printing/cemetery-desecrator-prm) `{4}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Zombie*
14. [**Specter of Mortality**](https://avascry.com/printing/specter-of-mortality-woe) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Specter*
15. [**Phyrexian Denouncer**](https://avascry.com/printing/phyrexian-denouncer-dde) `{1}{B}` — *Creature — Phyrexian Carrier*
16. [**Necratog**](https://avascry.com/printing/necratog-wc97) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Atog*
17. [**Suffer the Past**](https://avascry.com/printing/suffer-the-past-c21) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
18. [**Chupacabra Echo**](https://avascry.com/printing/chupacabra-echo-lci) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Beast Horror Spirit*
19. [**Carrionette**](https://avascry.com/printing/carrionette-tmp) `{1}{B}` — *Creature — Skeleton*
20. [**Cry of the Carnarium**](https://avascry.com/printing/cry-of-the-carnarium-rna) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
21. [**Overwhelming Remorse**](https://avascry.com/printing/overwhelming-remorse-bro) `{4}{B}` — *Instant*
22. [**Sickening Shoal**](https://avascry.com/printing/sickening-shoal-bok) `{X}{B}{B}` — *Instant — Arcane*
23. [**Erebos's Intervention**](https://avascry.com/printing/ereboss-intervention-pthb) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
24. [**Despoiler of Souls**](https://avascry.com/printing/despoiler-of-souls-ori) `{B}{B}` — *Creature — Horror*
25. [**March of Wretched Sorrow**](https://avascry.com/printing/march-of-wretched-sorrow-neo) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
26. [**Famished Ghoul**](https://avascry.com/printing/famished-ghoul-ody) `{3}{B}` — *Creature — Zombie*
27. [**Ob Nixilis's Cruelty**](https://avascry.com/printing/ob-nixiliss-cruelty-war) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
28. [**Nightmarish End**](https://avascry.com/printing/nightmarish-end-jou) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
29. [**Thraben Heretic**](https://avascry.com/printing/thraben-heretic-ddq) `{1}{W}` — *Creature — Human Wizard*
30. [**Ghosts of the Damned**](https://avascry.com/printing/ghosts-of-the-damned-leg) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Spirit*
31. [**Cabal Trainee**](https://avascry.com/printing/cabal-trainee-jud) `{B}` — *Creature — Human Minion*