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Arbaaz Mir

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

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.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Assassin's Creed
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#3344
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Arbaaz Mir card art
Arbaaz Mir puts a free scry 1 on every attack, and when paired with Sensei's Divining Top that becomes a reliable draw-and-replace engine for essentially no mana investment. The cost is a 1/1 body that dies to a stiff breeze — you're running it for the trigger, not the combat stats. Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks run Arbaaz Mir in nearly 60% of lists, and that number tells you everything about where this card belongs.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

58.9% of decks · synergy 0.56

Arbaaz Mir is a core piece of the Ezio Auditore da Firenze engine — every attack triggers his death-mark ability to set up unblockable assassins, and Arbaaz's scry keeps the top of the deck sculpted for the next threat.

02
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

50.2% of decks · synergy 0.48

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rewards attacking with multiple creatures, and Arbaaz Mir turns each of those swings into a free scry, smoothing out the aggressive curve Altaïr demands.

03
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

48.8% of decks · synergy 0.47

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge wants as many legendary creatures attacking as possible, and Arbaaz Mir slots in as a cheap legendary body that pulls its weight every combat with incremental card selection.

04
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

28.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer tutors creatures directly into play, and Arbaaz Mir is exactly the low-cost legendary that justifies a tutor slot while contributing a persistent scry effect through the game.

05
Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

25.3% of decks · synergy 0.21

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog cheats small creatures into play, and Arbaaz Mir's one-mana cost puts it squarely in the range she can deploy for free while adding consistent top-deck manipulation to an already value-dense gameplan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Arbaaz Mir actually lives — the scry trigger scales with the number of attackers at a multiplayer table, and legendary-matters synergies give it a structural home in several archetypes. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; a 1/1 for one that scries on attack doesn't compete in formats where turn-one kills are real. Modern is the same story: the effect is too incremental and the body too fragile to earn a slot in any serious list. Oathbreaker is the one exception worth noting — the faster clock and smaller game state make the consistent scry more meaningful, especially in aggressive legendary-creature shells.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Arbaaz Mir is firmly bulk, and that price is appropriate for a card whose demand is almost entirely concentrated in one Commander archetype. It won't climb without a new legendary-synergy commander pushing the effect into broader relevance, so pick up copies for what they cost now and don't expect movement.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.