Card
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Mana cost {R}{W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin 3/3
First strike Whenever Altaïr 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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 284 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · ACR · #45
- Cheapest printing
- €2.54
- EDHREC salt
- 0.78
- Color identity
- Black, Red, White
- Keywords
- First strike
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
284 known combos.
- Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad + Port Razer + Roshan, Hidden Magister
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite combat phases
View on Commander Spellbook - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad + Port Razer + Ashes of the Fallen
Produces: Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad + Port Razer + Conspiracy
Produces: Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-07-05 · Wizards of the Coast
Although the tokens enter the battlefield attacking, they were never declared as attacking creatures. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when they enter the battlefield attacking. - 2024-07-05 · Wizards of the Coast
If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2024-07-05 · Wizards of the Coast
Each of the tokens copies exactly what was printed on the card in exile and nothing else. They don't copy any information about the object the card was before it was exiled. - 2024-07-05 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose which player, planeswalker, or battle the tokens are attacking. Each token can enter attacking a different player, planeswalker, or battle, and they don't need to be the same one that Altaïr is attacking. - 2024-07-05 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card copied by one of the tokens had any "when [this permanent] enters the battlefield" abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it's created. Similarly, any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities that any of the tokens have copied will also work.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast