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Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

Menace
Assassin spells you cast have freerunning {B}{B}. (You may cast a spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Whenever Ezio deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} if that player has 10 or less life. When you do, that player loses the game.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Assassin's Creed
Price
$3.04
EDHREC rank
#6602
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze card art
Ezio Auditore da Firenze kills a creature every combat — and if that creature's controller has the highest life total, it's an unconditional assassination with no targeting restriction, which is exactly the kind of repeatable board control that wins long games. The catch is a 2/2 body for three mana in black-green that needs to connect, so evasion support isn't optional — treat it like a worse Sorin Markov in terms of setup cost, but better in terms of sustained value.

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 Ezio Auditore da Firenze actually lives — four opponents means someone almost always has the highest life total, so the assassination trigger fires reliably and the political pressure of 'don't gain life or you're the target' is real. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana 2/2 with a conditional combat trigger doesn't come close to the power threshold those formats demand, and without reliable evasion support it will never connect. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning: the life-total targeting condition can be pointed at a specific opponent more easily in a two-player context, but the 60-card singleton construction makes assembling evasion harder.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Ezio Auditore da FirenzeMagister Sphinx

Ezio Auditore da FirenzeMagister Sphinx

Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent; Target opponent loses the game

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Price Context

Current price

$3.04 cheap tier

At $3.04, Ezio Auditore da Firenze sits comfortably in budget territory — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a genuinely powerful repeatable effect. Niche appeal and the Assassin's Creed crossover novelty are already priced in, so significant upward movement is unlikely unless a breakout Commander build emerges.

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