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.)

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.

Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card.
Draw two cards.

Sol Ring

Smoke Bomb

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

Reconstruct History

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Exile Reconstruct History.

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Whenever you attack, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, choose two —
• Create two 1/1 red and white Soldier creature tokens with haste that are tapped and attacking.
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Caesar, Legion's Emperor deals damage equal to the number of creature tokens you control to target opponent.

Overpowering Attack

Freerunning {2}{R} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Untap all creatures you control that attacked this turn. If it's your main phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase, followed by an additional main phase.

Command Tower

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

Temple of Triumph

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Canyon Slough enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Eivor, Battle-Ready

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Haste (This creature can attack as soon as it comes under your control.)
Whenever Eivor, Battle-Ready attacks, it deals damage equal to the number of Equipment you control to each opponent.

The Animus

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target legendary creature card from a graveyard with a memory counter on it.
{T}: Until your next turn, target legendary creature you control becomes a copy of target creature card in exile with a memory counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.)

Fall of the First Civilization

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You and target opponent each draw two cards.
II — Exile target artifact an opponent controls.
III — Each player chooses three nonland permanents they control. Destroy all other nonland permanents.

Raven Clan War-Axe

When Raven Clan War-Axe enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Eivor, Battle-Ready, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
Equip {2}

Go for the Throat

Shattered Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Shattered Landscape: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Plains, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {R}{W}{B} ({R}{W}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Arcane Signet

Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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.)

The Grim Captain's Locker

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—{3}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Boros Signet

At Knifepoint

During your turn, outlaws you control have first strike. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
Whenever you commit a crime, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery." This ability triggers only once each turn.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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.

The Spear of Leonidas

Whenever equipped creature attacks, choose one —
• Bull Rush — It gains double strike until end of turn.
• Summon — Create Phobos, a legendary 3/2 red Horse creature token.
• Revelation — Discard two cards, then draw two cards.
Equip {2}

Desolate Mire

Rakdos Signet

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Murder

Brotherhood Patriarch

When Brotherhood Patriarch dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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.

Ruthless Lawbringer

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

Thraben Charm

Choose one —
• Thraben Charm deals damage equal to twice the number of creatures you control to target creature.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile any number of target players' graveyards.

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.)

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.)

Origin of the Hidden Ones

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Origin of the Hidden Ones deals 4 damage to any target.
II — Create two 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens with menace.
III — Whenever an Assassin you control attacks this turn, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with menace that's tapped and attacking.

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.)

Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

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.

Hidden Blade

Flash
When Hidden Blade 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 {2}

Vault 11: Voter's Dilemma

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — For each opponent, you create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
II, III — Each player secretly votes for up to one creature, then those votes are revealed. If no creature got votes, each player draws a card. Otherwise, destroy each creature with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

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.

Evolving Wilds

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

Tainted Field

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

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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.)

Assassin Initiate

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

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.

Tainted Peak

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

Aurelia, the Law Above

Flying, vigilance, haste
Whenever a player attacks with three or more creatures, you draw a card.
Whenever a player attacks with five or more creatures, Aurelia, the Law Above deals 3 damage to each of your opponents and you gain 3 life.

Diamond City

Diamond City enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Move a shield counter from Diamond City onto target creature. Activate only if two or more creatures entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Requisition Raid

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Destroy target artifact.
+ {1} — Destroy target enchantment.
+ {1} — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Shay Cormac

{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof, indestructible, protection, shroud, and ward until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, put a bounty counter on that creature.
Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Shay Cormac.

Nomad Outpost

Nomad Outpost enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.

Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Mortify

Swords to Plowshares

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

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.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Windbrisk Heights enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Warleader's Call

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

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.

Shadowblood Ridge

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.

Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)
Equip {1}

Swamp

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.)

Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.

V.A.T.S.

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Choose any number of target creatures with equal toughness. Destroy the chosen creatures.

Mountain

Plains

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.

What Must Be Done

Choose one —
• Let the World Burn — Destroy all artifacts and creatures.
• Release Juno — Return target historic permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it if it's a creature. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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.

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.)

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

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}

Detained by Legionnaires

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos

Trample
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos attacks each combat if able, can't be sacrificed, and can't attack its owner.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of Alexios, untaps it, and puts a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

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