Assassin

For the format, see Assassin (format).

Assassin
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Beeble Scale	3
Statistics	123 cards 0.8% 3.3% 57.7% 3.3% 2.4% 10.6% 0.8% 1.6% 1.6% 3.3% 4.9% 9.8% 9 Assassin creation cards 11.1% 22.2% 11.1% 22.2% 11.1% 22.2% as of Assassin's Creed
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type:"Assassin"

Assassin is a creature class. The first creature to bear the type was the Royal Assassin in Alpha.

Description

Assassins specialize in one thing: killing. Assassins are amoral in the extreme, ending the lives of others for money or the thrill of killing.

Assassins sometimes have abilities that let them directly destroy other creatures, but for the lower-rarity versions, deathtouch is usually sufficient representation. The majority of assassins are black, with three of the remaining (two red and one blue) being color pie bends, having creature-destruction abilities not regularly in pie. Two other recent monored Assassins have been printed since, but their typing justification is more tenuous. The sole green Assassin is a deathtouch Kraul in the cult of the assassin queen Vraska.

History

After Alpha the Assassin creature type wouldn't be printed on another card for three years, Suq'Ata Assassin in Visions. Note that there were a handful of cards between the two that would retroactively become Assassins, making Ramses Overdark from Legends the first Legendary Assassin. From that point forward, the Assassin creature type started seeing more use, although seldom more than once or twice per set.

For Outlaws of Thunder Junction Assassins were batched as Outlaws. Universes Beyond Assassin's Creed had an "Assassins'-mater " theme. As did the Universes Beyond set that followed, Assassin's Creed.

Storyline

Assassin organizations

• Breathstealers
• House Dimir
• Maestros Family
• The assassins of the Ochran

Notable assassins

Alara (Grixis)

• Thraximundar

Capenna

• Anhelo
• Mari

Dominaria

• Ramses Overdark
• Xira Arien

Fiora

• Marchesa d'Amati

Ikoria

• Kelsien

Innistrad

• Olivia Voldaren

Kamigawa

• Kiku

Kylem

• Virtus

Ravnica

• Araithia Shokta
• Etrata
• Javy
• Massacre Girl
• The Cozen
• Vraska

Tolvada

• Kaya

Unknown

• Jessie Zane

Universes Beyond

Assassin's Creed

• Achilles Davenport (card)
• Adéwalé (card)
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (card)
• Anne Bonny (card)
• Arbaaz Mir (card)
• Aveline de Grandpré (card)
• Aya (card)
• Basim Ibn Ishaq (card)
• Bayek (card)
• Desmond Miles (card)
• Edward Kenway (card)
• Eivor Varinsdottir (card)
• Evie Frye (card)
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze (card)
• Kassandra (card)
• Layla Hassan (card)
• Lydia Frye (card)
• Mary Read (card)
• Ratonhnhaké꞉ton (card)
• Rebecca Crane (card)
• Roshan (card)
• Shao Jun (card)
• Shaun Hastings (card)

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Assassin	Black	Creature — Assassin	1/1	Menace	Aya of Alexandria Headsplitter Origin of the Hidden Ones Ratonhnhaké꞉ton Rooftop Bypass
	Black	Creature — Assassin	1/1	Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.	Vraska the Unseen
	Black	Creature — Assassin	1/1	Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.	Vraska, Swarm's Eminence
	Black	Creature — Assassin	1/1	Deathtouch, haste	Paliano Queen Marchesa