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Assassin Den

Creature — Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{3}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It can't be blocked this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Assassin's Creed
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#15426
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Assassin Den card art
Assassin Den turns your land drop into a repeatable removal engine — tap five lands, exile a creature, and put a 1/1 Assassin token into play. The cost is steep enough that Berta, Wise Extrapolator and other untap-heavy commanders are the realistic home for it; in a normal green-black shell, you'll rarely fire it more than once per turn cycle.

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

Assassin Den is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its five-land activation cost makes it a Commander card in practice. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a land that asks you to tap five permanents at sorcery speed, and Modern's tempo demands mean you'd rather have a spell that costs two mana and does the same job. In Commander, the math changes — you have 40 life, multiple opponents, and the kind of board stall where an exile effect stapled to a land looks genuinely attractive.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Assassin Den is deep bulk — grab a copy anytime you see it in a dollar box. Bulk rares with narrow activation costs rarely climb, so treat it as a free slot filler rather than a pickup with upside.

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