Royal Assassin

Escape Detection

Freerunning—Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (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 to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Scarblade Elite

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

Vein Ripper

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

Guul Draz Assassin

Level up {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
2/2
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
LEVEL 4+
4/4
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Strixhaven Stadium

{T}: Add {C}. Put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.

Orochi Soul-Reaver

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Callidus Assassin

Flash
Polymorphine — You may have Callidus Assassin enter the battlefield tapped as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy up to one other target creature with the same name as this creature."

Arcane Signet

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

Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Virtus the Veiled

Partner with Gorm the Great (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Gorm into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Deathtouch
Whenever Virtus the Veiled deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Etrata, the Silencer

Etrata, the Silencer can't be blocked.
Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.

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.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your precombat 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.)

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield or attacks, draw a card.

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Deathtouch
Face-down creatures you control have "{2}{U}{B}: Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost."
Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library.

Hidden Blade

Flash
When Hidden Blade enters the battlefield, 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 {2}

Sol Ring

Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Termination Facilitator

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it is dealt damage, destroy it.

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."

Cover of Darkness

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

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature {1}
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Big Game Hunter

When Big Game Hunter enters the battlefield, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.
Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

King's Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Ezio, Blade of Vengeance

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Phage the Untouchable

When Phage the Untouchable enters the battlefield, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Discreet Retreat

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast outlaw spells or activate abilities of outlaw sources." (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
Whenever you cast your first outlaw spell each turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Underground Sea

Assassin Initiate

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

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Silumgar Assassin

Creatures with power greater than Silumgar Assassin's power can't block it.
Megamorph {2}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Silumgar Assassin is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 3 or less an opponent controls.

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Restart Sequence

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.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Swamp

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Hookblade Veteran

As long as it's your turn, Hookblade Veteran has flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

The Key to the Vault

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Equip {2}{U}

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.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Grim Hireling

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens.
{B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Jacob Frye

Partner with Evie Frye (When this creature enters the battlefield, 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.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Ramses, Assassin Lord

Deathtouch
Other Assassins you control get +1/+1.
Whenever a player loses the game, if they were attacked this turn by an Assassin you controlled, you win the game.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Command Tower

Ravenloft Adventurer

When Ravenloft Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it.
Whenever Ravenloft Adventurer attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Murkwater Pathway

Clearwater Pathway

Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway

Aven Heartstabber

Flying
As long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, Aven Heartstabber gets +2/+2 and has deathtouch.
When Aven Heartstabber dies, mill two cards, then draw a card.

Coerced to Kill

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 1/1, has deathtouch, and is an Assassin in addition to its other types.

Unscrupulous Contractor

When Unscrupulous Contractor enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature. When you do, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Plot {2}{B} (You may pay {2}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Chain Assassination

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.)
Destroy target creature. If another creature died this turn, draw a card.

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Fell Mire

As Fell Mire enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Fell the Profane

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire

Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell.
{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control.
{3}, {T}, Exile Plaza of Heroes: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Island

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters the battlefield, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Stronghold Assassin

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

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.

Blood Operative

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

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Rogue Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.
{1}{U}{B}: Level 2
Creatures you control have menace.
{2}{U}{B}: Level 3
You may play cards exiled with Rogue Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Double Down

Whenever you cast an outlaw spell, copy that spell. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

Tainted Isle

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

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.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

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

Dark Impostor

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.
Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

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.

Changeling Outcast

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

Soporific Springs

As Soporific Springs enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs

Evie Frye

Partner with Jacob Frye (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Jacob into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a creature card this way, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Achilles Davenport

Freerunning {U}{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.)
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Other Assassins you control get +1/+1.

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

Eagle Vision

Freerunning {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Draw three cards.

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Nightshade Assassin

First strike
When Nightshade Assassin enters the battlefield, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

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 Ruthless Ripper is turned face up, target player loses 2 life.

Basim Ibn Ishaq

Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. Basim Ibn Ishaq can't be blocked this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Lydia Frye

Lydia Frye can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
At the beginning of your end step, surveil X, where X is the number of tapped Assassins you control. (Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.