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Xira
Deck Size: 99
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Est deck cost: $139.46
Salt sum: 19.57
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Commander

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Xira, the Golden Sting

Flying, haste Whenever Xira attacks, put an egg counter on another target creature without an egg counter on it. When that creature dies, if it has an egg counter on it, draw a card and create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

Creature
Xira, the Golden Sting (dmc) 48

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Anthem

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Arno Dorian

Deathtouch Other Assassins you control get +2/+0. Disguise {B}{R} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Creature
Arno Dorian (acr) 47

Anthem

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Burn

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Agate-Blade Assassin

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Agate-Blade Assassin (blb) 82
Deadeye Duelist

Reach {1}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Deadeye Duelist (otj) 119
Iridescent Vinelasher

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Iridescent Vinelasher (blb) 99
Pyrotechnic Performer

Disguise {R} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) Whenever this creature or another creature you control is turned face up, that creature deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Creature
Pyrotechnic Performer (mkm) 140

Burn

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Counters

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Aveline de Grandpré

Deathtouch Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on that creature. Disguise {B}{G} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Creature
Aveline de Grandpré (acr) 40
Cindering Cutthroat

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if an opponent lost life this turn. {1}{B/R}: This creature gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Cindering Cutthroat (blb) 208

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Creature

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Brotherhood Ambushers

Freerunning {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)

Creature
Brotherhood Ambushers (acr) 285

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Draw

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Adrestia

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever Adrestia attacks, if an Assassin crewed it this turn, draw a card. Adrestia becomes an Assassin in addition to its other types until end of turn. Crew 1

Artifact
Adrestia (acr) 68
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (c21) 135
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (acr) 94
Desmond Miles

Menace Desmond Miles gets +1/+0 for each other Assassin you control and each Assassin card in your graveyard. Whenever Desmond Miles deals combat damage to a player, surveil X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player.

Creature
Desmond Miles (acr) 24
Green Sun's Twilight

Reveal the top X plus one cards of your library. Choose a creature card and/or a land card from among them. Put those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is 5 or more, instead put the chosen cards onto the battlefield or into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Green Sun's Twilight (one) 169
Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Creature
Mari, the Killing Quill (otc) 138
Playful Shove

Playful Shove deals 1 damage to any target. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Playful Shove (blb) 145
Sazacap's Brew

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Target player draws two cards. If the gift was promised, target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Sazacap's Brew (blb) 151
Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (znr) 172

Draw

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Evasion

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Assassin Initiate

{1}: This creature gains your choice of flying, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Assassin Initiate (acr) 22
Thrill-Kill Assassin

Deathtouch Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Thrill-Kill Assassin (rvr) 94

Evasion

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Land

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Brotherhood Headquarters

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an Assassin spell or a spell that has freerunning, or to activate an ability of an Assassin source.

Land
Brotherhood Headquarters (acr) 80
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (znc) 124
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (m20) 246
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (c21) 288
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (tdm) 286
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (c21) 291
Gruul Turf

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Gruul Turf (gpt) 158
Hidden Grotto

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Hidden Grotto (blb) 254
Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (c21) 295
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (c21) 297
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 283
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (dis) 178
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c21) 312
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 281
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (c21) 321
Temple of Abandon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Abandon (thb) 244
Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (c21) 323
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (one) 261
Uncharted Haven

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Uncharted Haven (blb) 261
Unknown Shores

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Unknown Shores (thb) 249
Witherbloom Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Witherbloom Campus (stx) 275

Land

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Mill

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Relentless Pursuit

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Relentless Pursuit (thb) 195

Mill

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Protection

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Minion's Return

Flash Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Minion's Return (thb) 104
Unholy Indenture

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Enchantment
Unholy Indenture (m20) 119

Protection

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Ramp

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Altar of the Pantheon

Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one. {T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Altar of the Pantheon (plst) THB-231
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c21) 234
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (znc) 109
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (scd) 177
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (cst) 120
Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Darksteel Ingot (dst) 112
Golgari Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Artifact
Golgari Signet (rav) 262
Gruul Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Artifact
Gruul Signet (gpt) 150
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (znc) 114
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Phyrexian Atlas

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Corrupted — Whenever this artifact becomes tapped, each opponent who has three or more poison counters loses 1 life.

Artifact
Phyrexian Atlas (one) 237
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dis) 165
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c21) 263
Viewpoint Synchronization

Freerunning {2}{G} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Search your library for up to three basic land cards and reveal them. Put two of them onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Viewpoint Synchronization (acr) 43
Vraska, the Silencer

Deathtouch Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield tapped under your control. It's a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color," and it loses all other card types.

Creature
Vraska, the Silencer (otj) 237

Ramp

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Recursion

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Blood Beckoning

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was kicked, instead return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Blood Beckoning (znr) 92
Endless Obedience

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Endless Obedience (znc) 41
False Mourning

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Sorcery
False Mourning (ptk) 134
Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
Jacob Frye

Partner with Evie Frye (When this creature enters, target player may put Evie into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, exile up to one target Assassin card or card with freerunning from your graveyard. If you do, copy it. You may cast the copy.

Creature
Jacob Frye (acr) 132
Soul Salvage

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Soul Salvage (m20) 116
Vigor Mortis

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If {G} was spent to cast this spell, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Vigor Mortis (rav) 111

Recursion

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Removal

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Agate Assault

Choose one — • Agate Assault deals 4 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead. • Exile target artifact.

Sorcery
Agate Assault (blb) 122
Briarblade Adept

Whenever this creature attacks, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Encore {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Briarblade Adept (cmr) 111
Broken Wings

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

Instant
Broken Wings (znr) 181
Cruel Sadist

{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from this creature: It deals X damage to target creature.

Creature
Cruel Sadist (j22) 391
Feed the Cycle

As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay {B}. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Feed the Cycle (blb) 94
Fell

Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Fell (blb) 95
Ghostly Visit

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Sorcery
Ghostly Visit (ptk) 76
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (acr) 91
Hired Poisoner

Deathtouch

Creature
Hired Poisoner (grn) 72
Horobi's Whisper

If you control a Swamp, destroy target nonblack creature. Splice onto Arcane—Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Horobi's Whisper (bok) 70
Kraul Whipcracker

Reach When this creature enters, destroy target token an opponent controls.

Creature
Kraul Whipcracker (mkm) 213†
Molten Blast

Choose one — • Molten Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Molten Blast (znr) 149
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (acr) 92
Orzhov Euthanist

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.) When this creature enters or the creature it haunts dies, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Orzhov Euthanist (rvr) 88
Pawpatch Formation

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with flying. • Destroy target enchantment. • Draw a card. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Instant
Pawpatch Formation (blb) 186
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Price of Fame (znc) 52
Reckless Air Strike

Choose one — • Reckless Air Strike deals 3 damage to target creature with flying. • Destroy target artifact.

Sorcery
Reckless Air Strike (m20) 154
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (thb) 197
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (acr) 306
Ruthless Ripper

Deathtouch Morph—Reveal a black card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, target player loses 2 life.

Creature
Ruthless Ripper (a25) 107
Scarblade Elite

{T}, Exile an Assassin card from your graveyard: Destroy target creature.

Creature
Scarblade Elite (mor) 77
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (acr) 98
The Revelations of Ezio

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target tapped creature an opponent controls. II — Whenever an Assassin you control attacks this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it. III — Return target Assassin creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Enchantment
The Revelations of Ezio (acr) 31
Vraska's Finisher

When this creature enters, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Vraska's Finisher (j25) 510

Removal

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Theft

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Petty Larceny

Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library and exile those cards face down. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. Create a Treasure token.

Sorcery
Petty Larceny (acr) 28

Theft

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Tokens

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Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Deathtouch Whenever Aphelia attacks, you may pay {1}{B/G}. If you do, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch. {4}{B}: Until end of turn, whenever one or more Gorgons and/or Snakes you control deal combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Creature
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer (j25) 40

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Maybeboard

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Agent of the Fates

Deathtouch Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Agent of the Fates (ths) 76
Boilerbilges Ripper

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature or enchantment. When you do, this creature deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature
Boilerbilges Ripper (dsk) 127
Downwind Ambusher

Flash When this creature enters, choose one — • Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Downwind Ambusher (blb) 92
Final-Sting Faerie

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Final-Sting Faerie (mor) 63
Gixian Skullflayer

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Gixian Skullflayer (bro) 100
Lurking Deadeye

Flash When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Lurking Deadeye (j22) 437
Midnight Assassin

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Midnight Assassin (j25) 460
Ochran Assassin

Deathtouch All creatures able to block this creature do so.

Creature
Ochran Assassin (plst) GRN-194
Rooftop Assassin

Flash Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Rooftop Assassin (otj) 103
Roshan, Hidden Magister

Other creatures you control are Assassins in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. Face-down creatures you control have menace. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Roshan, Hidden Magister (acr) 32
Stingblade Assassin

Flash Flying When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Stingblade Assassin (woe) 109
The Lord of Pain

Menace Your opponents can't gain life. Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Creature
The Lord of Pain (dsc) 3
Twinblade Assassins

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, draw a card.

Creature
Twinblade Assassins (khc) 95

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