Kassandra, Eagle Bearer
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin Warrior
Haste
When Kassandra enters, search your graveyard, hand, and library for a card named The Spear of Leonidas, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Whenever a creature you control with a legendary Equipment attached to it deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Assassin's Creed
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #7003
Kassandra, Eagle Bearer drops into any Assassin-tribal shell and immediately rewards every targeted kill with loot and growing threat density — the card does real work the turn it lands. The cost is a legendary slot and a relatively high mana investment compared to leaner Assassin payoffs, but Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks hit the synergy ceiling so cleanly that Kassandra is close to an auto-include there.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Ezio Auditore da Firenze is purpose-built around killing opponents' creatures and accumulating value from those kills, which means Kassandra, Eagle Bearer's loot trigger fires almost every turn — the two cards form the core draw-and-threaten engine of the archetype.
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad scales on Assassin count and rewards stacking as many as possible, so Kassandra, Eagle Bearer pulls double duty as both a payoff and a loot engine that helps find the next Assassin in the chain.
Lightning, Army of One
Lightning, Army of One goes wide with solo attackers that want incremental card advantage, and Kassandra, Eagle Bearer converts each successful targeted removal into a fresh card — the fit is real even if the Assassin-tribal synergy is shallower here than in dedicated assassination decks.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Kassandra, Eagle Bearer lives — multiplayer games generate enough targets to trigger the loot ability repeatedly, and the Assassin-tribal payoffs compound over a long game in a way that one-on-one formats simply don't reward. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but competes against a card pool that wins faster and more consistently than a three-plus-mana legendary creature with a conditional loot effect can match. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if you're pairing her with a planeswalker that pressures creatures, but the 60-card singleton constraint limits how reliably you assemble the Assassin density she wants.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Kassandra, Eagle Bearer isn't currently available in the system — check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. As a Universes Beyond legendary with clear tribal appeal, expect demand to track closely with Assassin-commander popularity rather than broad format adoption.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.