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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

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.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$0.79 $0.35 $0.34

Commander

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Burn

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Agate-Blade Assassin

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

Creature - Assassin Lizard

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Burn

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

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 - Human Assassin Phyrexian

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $1.33

Brotherhood Ambushers

Freerunning

(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 - Human Assassin

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Hired Blade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Repeat Offender

: If this creature is suspected, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Otherwise, suspect it. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.10 $0.15

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 3 Price: $119.33

Brotherhood Patriarch

When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$99.99 $83.51 $88.57

Vein Ripper

Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Vampire Assassin

$18.99 $13.79 $15.10

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $188.90

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."

Legendary Creature - Vampire Assassin

$8.99 $6.19 $5.62

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$15.99 $16.28 $12.02

Merciless Harlequin

Freerunning

(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$94.99 $75.99 $53.66

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$11.99 $---- $7.33

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$37.99 $37.20 $39.59

Reverent Howl

Choose one —
• Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
• Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn.

Instant

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

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.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Shadow, Mysterious Assassin

Deathtouch
Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$7.99 $6.21 $5.50

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$9.49 $8.24 $5.90

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 8 Price: $174.92

Assassin Initiate

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

Creature - Human Assassin

$2.49 $2.10 $1.02

Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward

, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature

Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$29.99 $29.47 $22.05

Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$6.99 $5.14 $3.11

Cover of Darkness

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Enchantment

$129.99 $66.67 $131.69

Midnight Assassin

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

Creature - Vampire Assassin

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Poison-Blade Mentor

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever this creature attacks, another target Assassin you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.29 $0.17

Towering Viewpoint

Defender, reach
Leap of Faith —

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.99 $2.27 $0.63

Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.88 $2.37

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $0.00

Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature - Zombie Assassin

$---- $---- $----

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $79.66

Brotherhood Headquarters

: Add

: 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

$1.49 $2.47 $1.58

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$7.49 $8.25 $8.59

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

: Add

: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Legendary Land

Shizo, Death's Storehouse (plst) CHK-283

$39.99 $35.97 $25.43

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.99 $0.72 $0.52

Land

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Dark Matter Manipulator

When this creature enters, mill three cards.
This creature gets +2/+0 for every seven cards in your graveyard.

Creature - Human Warlock

$4.99 $1.74 $0.70

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $73.95

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$17.99 $13.34 $14.04

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$10.99 $9.60 $8.48

Smoke Bomb

Flash
All creatures have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact. When you do, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact

$2.99 $2.47 $2.22

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $4.25 $3.84

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$34.99 $---- $27.60

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 3 Price: $34.33

Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $6.93 $4.47

Nightmare Lash

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip—Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$22.99 $12.46 $6.61

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 6 Price: $1213.94

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$44.99 $36.17 $32.56

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$249.99 $191.70 $195.83

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '

: Add

.'"

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$499.99 $305.32 $----

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$399.99 $272.87 $326.13

Songs of the Damned

Add

for each creature card in your graveyard.

Instant

$1.99 $3.16 $1.08

The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.

: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Legendary Artifact

$16.99 $17.54 $12.49

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 4 Price: $23.76

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.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$0.79 $0.64 $0.22

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment

$3.49 $3.37 $2.86

Restart Sequence

Freerunning

(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$2.49 $2.23 $1.83

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.

: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$16.99 $---- $11.40

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 17 Price: $121.70

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$54.99 $---- $45.97

Blood Operative

Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.
Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.

Creature - Vampire Assassin

$0.59 $0.67 $0.34

Chain Assassination

Freerunning

(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Destroy target creature. If another creature died this turn, draw a card.

Instant

$1.49 $0.71 $0.57

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant

$5.49 $3.77 $1.93

Garza's Assassin

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Creature - Human Assassin

$16.99 $16.99 $5.72

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$5.49 $5.55 $4.33

Hired Poisoner

Deathtouch

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.99 $0.50 $0.42

Hooded Assassin

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.35 $0.05 $0.15

Hullcarver

Deathtouch

Creature Artifact - Assassin Robot

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Nekrataal

First strike
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.39 $0.45 $0.20

Phantom Blade

When this Equipment enters, attach it to up to one target creature you control. Destroy up to one other target creature.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $0.78 $0.51

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$---- $---- $----

Scarblade Elite

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

Creature - Elf Assassin

$7.99 $6.95 $3.33

Stingblade Assassin

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

Creature - Faerie Assassin

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

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 - Saga

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant

$19.99 $20.60 $18.75

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$4.49 $3.61 $2.60

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Titan Hunter

At the beginning of each player's end step, if no creatures died this turn, this creature deals 4 damage to that player.

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life.

Creature - Human Warrior

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.00

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$---- $---- $----

Tutor

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Maybeboard

Qty: 2 Price: $0.84

Hidden Blade

Flash
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. If that creature is an Assassin, it gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.49 $0.28 $0.23

Repeat Offender

: If this creature is suspected, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Otherwise, suspect it. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $2,039.07

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.74Total Mana Value: 181.00

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Pump

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Tutor

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Avg Mana Value: 2.74Total Mana Value: 181.00

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