Arbaaz Mir

Whenever Arbaaz Mir or another nontoken historic permanent you control enters, Arbaaz Mir deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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."

Nekrataal

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

Merciless Harlequin

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.)
When Merciless Harlequin enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Nightshade Assassin

First strike
When Nightshade Assassin enters, 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.)

Assassin Initiate

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

Blood Operative

Lifelink
When Blood Operative enters, 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.

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.

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.)

Aya of Alexandria

Menace, lifelink
Whenever a historic creature you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with menace. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Big Game Hunter

When Big Game Hunter enters, 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.)

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.

Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Hired Poisoner

Murderous Redcap

When Murderous Redcap enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Persist (When this creature 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.)

Midnight Assassin

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

Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

Flying, lifelink
Whenever one or more outlaws you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
{3}, Sacrifice two Treasures: Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Queen Marchesa

Deathtouch, haste
When Queen Marchesa enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent is the monarch, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and haste.

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.

Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch
When Thorn of the Black Rose enters, you become the monarch.

Vein Ripper

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

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.

Raffine's Silencer

When Raffine's Silencer enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
When Raffine's Silencer dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is Raffine's Silencer's power.

Ruthless Lawbringer

When Ruthless Lawbringer enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent.

Undercity Eliminator

When Undercity Eliminator enters, you may sacrifice an artifact or creature. When you do, exile target creature an opponent controls.

Virtus the Veiled

Partner with Gorm the Great (When this creature enters, 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.

Warleader's Call

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever a creature you control enters, Warleader's Call deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Unscrupulous Contractor

When Unscrupulous Contractor enters, 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.)

Orcish Oriflamme

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Shared Animosity

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature that shares a creature type with it.

Wei Assassins

When Wei Assassins enters, target opponent chooses a creature they control. Destroy that creature.

Barrage of Expendables

{R}, Sacrifice a creature: Barrage of Expendables deals 1 damage to any target.

Reverence

Creatures with power 2 or less can't attack you.

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

First strike
Whenever Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad attacks, exile up to one target Assassin creature card from your graveyard with a memory counter on it. Then for each creature card you own in exile with a memory counter on it, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of it. Exile those tokens at end of combat.

Absolute Law

Valor in Akros

Whenever a creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Absolute Grace

All creatures have protection from black.

Abiding Grace

At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• You gain 1 life.
• Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Aegis of the Gods

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Ajani's Mantra

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.

Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Archetype of Aggression

Creatures you control have trample.
Creatures your opponents control lose trample and can't have or gain trample.

Archetype of Courage

Creatures you control have first strike.
Creatures your opponents control lose first strike and can't have or gain first strike.

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

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