Card

Assimilation Aegis

Mana cost {1}{W}{U}

Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, exile up to one target creature until this Equipment leaves the battlefield. Whenever this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, for as long as this Equipment remains attached to it, that creature becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with this Equipment. Equip {2}

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 6 known combos. 7 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · OTJ · #192
Cheapest printing
€0.71
EDHREC salt
0.38
Color identity
Blue, White
Keywords
Equip

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

6 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you somehow exile multiple creature cards with the same Assimilation Aegis (probably because its first ability was copied or something caused it to trigger more than once), you choose one of the exiled creature cards each time its second triggered ability resolves. You don't have to choose the same one each time.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    When Assimilation Aegis's second ability resolves, the creature Assimilation Aegis is attached to copies exactly what was printed on the original creature card and nothing else. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was exiled.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    When the creature Assimilation Aegis is attached to becomes a copy of an exiled creature card, it's neither entering nor leaving the battlefield. Any enters-the-battlefield or leaves-the-battlefield abilities won't trigger.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If Assimilation Aegis leaves the battlefield before its first ability resolves, the target creature won't be exiled at all.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    Any non-copy effects that applied to the creature Assimilation Aegis is attached to before it becomes a copy of another card will continue to apply once it becomes a copy. The same is true of any counters that are on that creature.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If there are no creature cards exiled with Assimilation Aegis when its second ability resolves, the creature Assimilation Aegis is attached to won't become a copy of anything else. It will remain just as it was.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you somehow exile a noncreature card with Assimilation Aegis's first ability (possibly because it was a copy of a creature while on the battlefield), you can't choose to have the creature Assimilation Aegis is attached to become a copy of that card when Assimilation Aegis's second ability resolves.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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