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Ingenious Infiltrator

Creature — Vedalken Ninja

Ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2964
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Ingenious Infiltrator card art
Ingenious Infiltrator draws you a card every time a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player — and at two mana in blue-black, that rate is exceptional. Thousand-Faced Shadow and Splinter, Radical Rat both stack on top of it, turning a board of evasive Ninjas into a card-draw engine that outruns most tables by turn five.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Splinter, Radical Rat

Splinter, Radical Rat

80.9% of decks · synergy 0.79

Splinter, Radical Rat is the tightest fit: Splinter cares about unblocked Rats and Ninjas connecting, and Ingenious Infiltrator turns every successful ninjutsu attack into a free card, compounding the damage triggers Splinter is already generating.

02
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

86.2% of decks · synergy 0.77

Ingenious Infiltrator appears in over 86% of Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks because it doubles the payoff on every unblocked swing — Yuriko's ninjutsu loop already demands evasive Ninjas, and Infiltrator makes each connection draw a card on top of the reveal trigger.

03
Goro-Goro and Satoru

Goro-Goro and Satoru

62.7% of decks · synergy 0.61

Goro-Goro and Satoru reward connecting with creatures that have been given haste, and Ingenious Infiltrator converts those attacks into card advantage immediately, keeping the hand full as the deck deploys threats through the combat step.

04
Satoru, the Infiltrator

Satoru, the Infiltrator

47.3% of decks · synergy 0.38

Satoru, the Infiltrator cares specifically about Ninjas sneaking through unblocked, so Ingenious Infiltrator's trigger fires in exactly the scenarios Satoru is already engineering — each connected Ninja draws two cards total between the two commanders.

05
Satoru Umezawa

Satoru Umezawa

35.4% of decks · synergy 0.26

Satoru Umezawa's ninjutsu-cheating gameplan floods the board with large Ninjas that connect once and then stop being unblockable — Ingenious Infiltrator extends the value of those connections by drawing a card each time one lands, making the engine less reliant on resolving Satoru's trigger alone.

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 Ingenious Infiltrator lives — the Ninja tribal density and ninjutsu loops in that format are the only context where it's consistently drawing multiple cards per turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats have no Ninja synergy infrastructure and far more efficient card-draw at two mana. Modern is the same story: Ingenious Infiltrator sees no competitive play there because the tribal support doesn't exist at the required power level. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth noting — a Yuriko-style Ninja shell can function there, and Infiltrator slots straight in for the same reason it does in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing for Ingenious Infiltrator isn't available in this data, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its 80%+ inclusion rate in the most popular Ninja commanders, expect demand to keep the price above bulk — it's not a card you stumble into for pennies.

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