Assassin's Ink
Instant
This spell costs 
less to cast if you control an artifact and less to cast if you control an enchantment.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #15010
Assassin's Ink destroys any nonland permanent — creature, enchantment, artifact, planeswalker, battle — at instant speed, which is a genuinely broad effect. The catch is the cost: it needs three colors of mana, so it only belongs in a deck that can consistently produce all three pips it requires.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Assassin's Ink is a Commander card through and through — three-color pips are trivial to produce in a 99-card deck built across multiple colors, and the catch-all permanent removal hits the problem pieces that narrower spells miss. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's unplayable on rate: four mana for a removal spell in those formats demands either unconditional efficiency or a meaningful upside, and the pip requirement makes it even harder to cast consistently in two-color shells. Vintage doesn't want it either — the format answers permanents faster and cheaper. Stick to Commander, where the color fixing is free and the flexibility earns its mana cost.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Assassin's Ink sits firmly in bulk territory — buy a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rare prices rarely move unless a card breaks into competitive play, and that's not happening here, so treat it as a cheap slot-filler for a three-color-plus Commander deck that needs catch-all removal.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.