Loyal Inventor

Vigilance
When Loyal Inventor enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, then shuffle. Put that card into your hand if you control an Assassin. Otherwise, put that card on top of your library.

Haystack

{2}, {T}: Target creature you control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Blade of Selves

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Equip {4}

Conqueror's Flail

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control.
As long as Conqueror's Flail is attached to a creature, your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Equip {2}

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.)

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.

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.)

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {2}

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Go for the Throat

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.)

Phantom Blade

When Phantom Blade 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 {2}

Sword of Light and Shadow

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Equip {2}

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.

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton

As long as Ratonhnhaké꞉ton hasn't dealt damage yet, it has hexproof and can't be blocked.
Whenever Ratonhnhaké꞉ton deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with menace. When you do, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that token.

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

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.

Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may attach any number of Auras and Equipment you control to target permanent or player.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Flying, lifelink
Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever a modified creature you control attacks, double the number of each kind of counter on it. Then for each nontoken permanent attached to it, create a token that's a copy of that permanent attached to that creature.

Assassin Initiate

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

Ballad of the Black Flag

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Mill three cards. You may put a historic card from among them into your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
IV — Historic spells you cast this turn cost {2} less to cast.

Battlefield Improvisation

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If that creature is attacking, you may attach any number of Equipment you control to it.

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.

Colossus Hammer

Equipped creature gets +10/+10 and loses flying.
Equip {8} ({8}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
{B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.
Equip {1}

Arcane Signet

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

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Assimilation Aegis

When Assimilation Aegis enters, exile up to one target creature until Assimilation Aegis leaves the battlefield.
Whenever Assimilation Aegis becomes attached to a creature, for as long as Assimilation Aegis remains attached to it, that creature becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with Assimilation Aegis.
Equip {2}

Codsworth, Handy Helper

Commanders you control have ward {2}.
{T}: Add {W}{W}. Spend this mana only to cast Aura and/or Equipment spells.
{T}: Attach target Aura or Equipment you control to target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Fellwar Stone

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

Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
+ {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mask of the Schemer

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Equip {2}

Millikin

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Raffine, Scheming Seer

Flying, ward {1}
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

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.

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.

Lightning Greaves

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

Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Masterwork of Ingenuity

You may have Masterwork of Ingenuity enter as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield.

Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Command Tower

Evolving Wilds

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

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Swamp

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Bojuka Bog

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

Ancient Den

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Rogue's Passage

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

Seat of the Synod

Vault of Whispers

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Deathrender

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield and attach Deathrender to it.
Equip {2}

Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play historic lands and cast historic spells from the top of your library. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
{T}: Add {U}.

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control.
+1: Surveil 2.
−3: Exile target creature.
−6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

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.

Dispatch

Tap target creature.
Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.
When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Evie Frye

Partner with Jacob Frye (When this creature enters, 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.

Forge Anew

When Forge Anew enters, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
During your turn, you may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant.
You may pay {0} rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate during each of your turns.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Whenever you attack, target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn. It connives. Then choose another attacking creature with lesser power. That creature gains double strike until end of turn. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Ward {4}
Whenever Kappa Cannoneer or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Kappa Cannoneer and it can't be blocked this turn.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Sol Ring

Sram, Senior Edificer

Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Talisman of Dominance

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

Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Unmarked Grave

Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Island

Plains

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Morphic Pool

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

Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible.
Equip {4}

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.

Layla Hassan

First strike
When Layla Hassan enters and whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand.

Puresteel Paladin

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card.
Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Reconnaissance

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

Rona, Herald of Invasion

Whenever you cast a legendary spell, untap Rona, Herald of Invasion.
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{5}{B/P}: Transform Rona. Activate only as a sorcery. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Rona, Tolarian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Rona, Tolarian Obliterator, that source's controller exiles a card from their hand at random. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Otherwise, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator

Sigarda's Aid

You may cast Aura and Equipment spells as though they had flash.
Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may attach it to target creature you control.

Steelshaper's Gift

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Talisman of Progress

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

Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Void Rend

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Drowned Catacomb

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

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Graveyard

Equipment

Assassins

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