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Moonblade Shinobi

Creature — Human Ninja

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9083
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Moonblade Shinobi card art
Moonblade Shinobi lands and immediately puts a 1/1 blue Illusion token with flying onto the battlefield — free pressure the turn it connects, no extra mana required. The cost is a four-mana 3/2 body, which is below rate on stats alone, but ninjutsu decks running Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow and Thousand-Faced Shadow don't care about vanilla efficiency; they care about what happens when something unblocked hits a player.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

23.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow triggers off every creature that connects, and Moonblade Shinobi's ninjutsu puts it in — then the token it generates becomes the next body to bounce and reuse as a ninjutsu enabler the following turn.

02
Splinter, Radical Rat

Splinter, Radical Rat

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

Splinter, Radical Rat rewards you for running a wide unblocked threat package, and Moonblade Shinobi delivers both a ninjutsu threat and a free flying body to keep the evasive chain going.

03
Satoru, the Infiltrator

Satoru, the Infiltrator

20.0% of decks · synergy 0.17

Satoru, the Infiltrator generates card advantage whenever a creature deals combat damage for the first time, making Moonblade Shinobi's token a second potential trigger and a free body to threaten another ninjutsu the following attack.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Moonblade Shinobi actually lives — ninjutsu is a mechanic built for multiplayer, evasion matters constantly, and the token it generates compounds value over a long game. In Pauper it's legal and the flying token has some relevance in tempo shells, but four mana is a steep ask at common power levels. Legacy and Vintage will ignore it entirely; the card is too slow and too low-impact for those formats. It's not legal in Pioneer or Standard, which is where most constructed players live, so Moonblade Shinobi is effectively a Commander-and-Pauper card in practice.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't currently available for Moonblade Shinobi, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given its niche but real role in Yuriko builds, it tends to hold modest value without spiking — pick it up whenever you're sleeving the deck, not as a priority.

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