Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

"The war polluted the land, turning what had once been fruitful fields into fetid morasses of mud and rusted corpses."
—*The Antiquities War*

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"I ask only that the winds return you to me as swiftly as they bear you and the Storm Crane away."
—Samthar, Sultai merchant, to Jialing, Jeskai monk

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—-he Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

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

"Log 2.9.089: Lammuat, the cemetery moon of salvage and secrets. Could be profitable for those brave enough to plumb its recesses."
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Island

Swamp

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

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

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

"Monteriggioni will outlast her enemies."
—Mario Auditore

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.

Path of Ancestry

This land 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.)

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

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

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
—Kiora

Submerged Boneyard

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Tainted Isle

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

Murky Otarian tides hide the forgotten treacheries of the Phyrexian war.

Darkwater Catacombs

The bones of doomed ships jut out from the muck while the bones of their sailors molder below.

Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"Every Silumgar blade carries the blessing of our dragonlord."
—Xathi the Infallible

Coat with Venom

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Thievery requires subtlety, from the beginning of the heist to the end.

Rogue's Gloves

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Ninjas can run across water, pull ladders from pockets, kill with a kiss, and slip between bricks. Pack of lies, I say."
—Benden, teahouse gossip

Phantom Ninja

When Selesnya missionaries moved into the Shanav Quarter, they faced scorn, ridicule, and ultimately martyrdom.

Assassin's Strike

Destroy target creature. Its controller discards a card.

Getting in was the easy part. Getting out proved to be more difficult.

Infiltrate

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Silent-Blade Oni

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Royal Assassin

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Murder

Cloak and Dagger

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Whenever a Rogue creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {3}

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Dimir Infiltrator

This creature can't be blocked.
Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Duskmantle Guildmage

{1}{U}{B}: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life.
{2}{U}{B}: Target player mills two cards.

Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Other guilds demand tolls from those who travel their territories, but not House Dimir. It takes its share secretly, one coin purse at a time.

Dimir Cutpurse

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card.

Okiba-Gang Shinobi

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Every twitching nerve and pulsing vein carries a message, discernible with the right tools.

Pain Seer

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Thieving Sprite

Flying
When this creature enters, target player reveals X cards from their hand, where X is the number of Faeries you control. You choose one of those cards. That player discards that card.

Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U}{B}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Keeper of the Dead

{B}, {T}: Choose target opponent who has at least two fewer creature cards in their graveyard than you do as you activate this ability. Destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Balustrade Spy

Flying
When this creature enters, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Stinkdrinker Bandit

Prowl {1}{B} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Goblin or Rogue.)
Whenever a Rogue you control attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"It was a bad evening for you, mate. Now it's chow time for the sharks."

Fathom Fleet Cutthroat

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Higure, the Still Wind

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{U} ({2}{U}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Higure deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a Ninja card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}: Target Ninja creature can't be blocked this turn.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

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

Morph

Gudul Lurker

This creature can't be blocked.
Megamorph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Many heroes' last sight is a grin at the other end of a rapier.

Final-Sting Faerie

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Guardian of Tazeem

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. If that land is an Island, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Marsh Flitter

Goblin Rogue

Flying
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens.
Sacrifice a Goblin: This creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Simple bargains are the most tempting, and oni bargains are the simplest of all: eternal life for eternal service.

Kuro's Taken

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Doomsday Specter

Flying
When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.

River Kelpie

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
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.)

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Recoil

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

"Who will miss you, drywalker? A wife? A child? Perhaps they will blame the sea for your fate, and teach future generations to stay far away from it."

Triton Shorestalker

Robe of Mirrors

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"The youths prattle on about heroic deeds, but avoiding the noose is a feat more daring than their entire careers."
—Basarios the Blade

Prowler's Helm

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls.
Equip {2}

"They were all laughing at you after you left, you know. How will you make them pay?"

Night's Whisper

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

"Why butcher an army when you can slash a single throat for the same result?"

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.

No mark remains hidden and no secret can be kept from an Assassin possessed of this unique gift.

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.

Haunted by memories he never had, of a family that was never his.

Basim Ibn Ishaq

Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. Basim Ibn Ishaq can't be blocked this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Hidden Blade

Flash
When this Equipment 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}

"The poison is no substitute for accuracy. Don't expect it to do your job for you."
—Pierre Bellec

Poison-Blade Mentor

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

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.)

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.

Shadow, Mysterious Assassin

Deathtouch
Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.

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.

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 this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Evie Frye

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.

"Who needs stealth when there's no one left to raise the alarm?"
—Jacob Frye

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.

Reno and Rude

Menace
Whenever Reno and Rude deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. Then you may sacrifice another creature or artifact. If you do, you may play the exiled card this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

In the Animus, death is only a temporary setback.

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.

"Galuf. It's good to see you again . . . Mwa-hahahahaha!"

Evil Reawakened

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

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.

"For a secret brotherhood, you certainly do get a lot of new recruits."
—Leonardo, to Ezio

Assassin Initiate

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

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.

Interceptor, Shadow's Hound

Menace
Assassins you control have menace.
Whenever you attack with one or more legendary creatures, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"The standard Ottoman hookblade has two parts, you see—the hook, and the blade."
—Yusuf Tazim

Hookblade Veteran

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

Rooftop Bypass

Assassin

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.)

"We need to stop Starrick and return London to the people who built it in the first place."
—Jayadeep Mir

Brotherhood Spy

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control a legendary Assassin, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

"Don't you recognize me? It's a-me, Mario!"
—Mario Auditore, to his nephew Ezio

Brotherhood Patriarch

When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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