---
target_card: Sickening Shoal
mana_cost: "{X}{B}{B}"
type_line: "Instant — Arcane"
algorithm: "4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings"
canonical_url: https://avascry.com/similar/sickening-shoal
json_api: https://avascry.com/similar/sickening-shoal.json
---

# Cards Similar & Synergistic to Sickening Shoal

- **Target Card:** [Sickening Shoal](https://avascry.com/printing/sickening-shoal-bok) (Instant — Arcane) `{X}{B}{B}`
- **Algorithm:** 4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings
- **JSON API:** https://avascry.com/similar/sickening-shoal.json

## Top 31 Synergistic Matches

1. [**March of Wretched Sorrow**](https://avascry.com/printing/march-of-wretched-sorrow-neo) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
2. [**Black Sun's Twilight**](https://avascry.com/printing/black-suns-twilight-pone) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
3. [**Scent of Nightshade**](https://avascry.com/printing/scent-of-nightshade-uds) `{1}{B}` — *Instant*
4. [**Blazing Shoal**](https://avascry.com/printing/blazing-shoal-bok) `{X}{R}{R}` — *Instant — Arcane*
5. [**Nightmarish End**](https://avascry.com/printing/nightmarish-end-jou) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
6. [**Disrupting Shoal**](https://avascry.com/printing/disrupting-shoal-bok) `{X}{U}{U}` — *Instant — Arcane*
7. [**Chill Haunting**](https://avascry.com/printing/chill-haunting-scg) `{1}{B}` — *Instant*
8. [**Shining Shoal**](https://avascry.com/printing/shining-shoal-bok) `{X}{W}{W}` — *Instant — Arcane*
9. [**Force of Despair**](https://avascry.com/printing/force-of-despair-mh1) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
10. [**Vessel of Malignity**](https://avascry.com/printing/vessel-of-malignity-soi) `{1}{B}` — *Enchantment*
11. [**Death Wind**](https://avascry.com/printing/death-wind-avr) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
12. [**Nourishing Shoal**](https://avascry.com/printing/nourishing-shoal-bok) `{X}{G}{G}` — *Instant — Arcane*
13. [**Baleful Mastery**](https://avascry.com/printing/baleful-mastery-pstx) `{3}{B}` — *Instant*
14. [**Erebos's Intervention**](https://avascry.com/printing/ereboss-intervention-pthb) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*
15. [**Spinning Darkness**](https://avascry.com/printing/spinning-darkness-wth) `{4}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
16. [**Induce Despair**](https://avascry.com/printing/induce-despair-roe) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
17. [**Call for Blood**](https://avascry.com/printing/call-for-blood-bok) `{4}{B}` — *Instant — Arcane*
18. [**Flunk**](https://avascry.com/printing/flunk-stx) `{1}{B}` — *Instant*
19. [**Soul Spike**](https://avascry.com/printing/soul-spike-csp) `{5}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
20. [**Weigh Down**](https://avascry.com/printing/weigh-down-khm) `{B}` — *Sorcery*
21. [**Toxic Deluge**](https://avascry.com/printing/toxic-deluge-pz1) `{2}{B}` — *Sorcery*
22. [**Planeswalker's Scorn**](https://avascry.com/printing/planeswalkers-scorn-pls) `{2}{B}` — *Enchantment*
23. [**Pull Under**](https://avascry.com/printing/pull-under-chk) `{5}{B}` — *Instant — Arcane*
24. [**Afflict**](https://avascry.com/printing/afflict-ody) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
25. [**Haunting Misery**](https://avascry.com/printing/haunting-misery-wth) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
26. [**Hatred**](https://avascry.com/printing/hatred-exo) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
27. [**Nightshade Seer**](https://avascry.com/printing/nightshade-seer-uds) `{3}{B}` — *Creature — Human Wizard*
28. [**Black Sun's Zenith**](https://avascry.com/printing/black-suns-zenith-mbs) `{X}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
29. [**Painbringer**](https://avascry.com/printing/painbringer-ody) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Human Minion*
30. [**Feed the Serpent**](https://avascry.com/printing/feed-the-serpent-khm) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Instant*
31. [**Slice from the Shadows**](https://avascry.com/printing/slice-from-the-shadows-mkm) `{X}{B}` — *Instant*