Brotherhood Patriarch
Creature — Human Assassin
When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Assassin's Creed
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #14374
Brotherhood Patriarch puts a +1/+1 counter on every creature you control whenever an Assassin you control kills something — that's a board-wide pump engine stapled to your combat step. The cost is running a creature-type synergy package that lives and dies by having Assassins doing the actual killing, which Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad makes trivially easy.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad wins by stacking counters through assassination triggers, and Brotherhood Patriarch doubles down on that loop — every kill your Assassins make grows the whole board, not just the creature doing the killing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brotherhood Patriarch is a Commander card through and through — the Assassin tribal payoff it enables is too slow and too dependent on combat to matter in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where games end before the engine assembles. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; Assassin synergy has no meaningful support base at common. Commander is where it belongs, specifically in Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad builds where the assassination triggers are plentiful and the counter-stacking gameplan makes every +1/+1 matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Brotherhood Patriarch is pure bulk — pick up four copies for less than a dollar if you're building Altaïr and want redundancy. Bulk rares tied to a single licensed IP crossover commander rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player, not a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.