Thriving Isle

Thriving Isle enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Cover of Darkness

As Cover of Darkness 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.)

Hired Blade

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

Royal Assassin

Sword of Vengeance

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike, vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip {3}

Bleeding Effect

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if a creature card in your graveyard has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.

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.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Assassin Gauntlet

When Assassin Gauntlet enters, attach it to up to one target creature you control. Tap all creatures target opponent controls.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card."
Equip {2}

Sunken Hollow

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

Alela, Artful Provocateur

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0.
Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

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.)

Arcane Signet

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

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Poison-Blade Mentor

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

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Lightning Greaves

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

Hostile Investigator

When Hostile Investigator enters, target opponent discards a card.
Whenever one or more players discard one or more cards, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip {2}

Lethal Scheme

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.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

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.

Caduceus, Staff of Hermes

Equipped creature has lifelink.
As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature."
Equip {W}{W}

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.

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.

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.)

Case of the Shifting Visage

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)

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.)

Mortify

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.

Sol Ring

Arcane Sanctum

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

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}

Feed the Swarm

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

Lead Pipe

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice Lead Pipe: Draw a card.
Equip {2}

Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Exotic Orchard

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

Mask of Riddles

Equipped creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip {2}

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Mirage Mesa

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

Murder

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever Sun Titan enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Auditore Ambush

Choose one or both —
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Target player searches their library and/or graveyard for a card named Ezio, Blade of Vengeance, reveals it, and puts it into their hand. If they search their library this way, they shuffle.

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.)

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Thriving Heath

Thriving Heath enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white.
{T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

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.

Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

Cloak of the Bat

Equipped creature has flying and haste.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Thriving Moor

Thriving Moor enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black.
{T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

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.

Jin-Gitaxias

Ward {2}
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
{3}{U}: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.

The Great Synthesis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control The Great Synthesis.
II — Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III — You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile The Great Synthesis, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis

Towering Viewpoint

Defender, reach
Leap of Faith — {3}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Assassin Initiate

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

Propaganda

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

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Hookblade

When Hookblade enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
During your turn, equipped creature has flying.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Hookblade Veteran

During your turn, Hookblade Veteran has flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

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.

Go for the Throat

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters, 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.

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.)

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

Talisman of Dominance

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

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Become Anonymous

Exile target nontoken creature you own and the top two cards of your library in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak those cards. They enter tapped. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

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.)

Temple of Silence

Temple of Silence enters tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Island

Prairie Stream

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

Reliquary Tower

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.

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Command Tower

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}

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.

Scoured Barrens

Scoured Barrens enters tapped.
When Scoured Barrens enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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.

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.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When Baleful Strix enters, draw a card.

Port Town

As Port Town enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Port Town enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Swamp

Boon-Bringer Valkyrie

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Flying, first strike, lifelink

Rooftop Bypass

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

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.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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