Silent Assassin
Creature — Human Mercenary Assassin
: Destroy target blocking creature at end of combat.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.53
- EDHREC rank
- #24619
Silent Assassin locks down the biggest threat on the board every combat — as long as it survives, the scariest creature your opponent controls can't attack or block. The catch is that Silent Assassin taps to activate and needs to untap to repeat the effect, so it's a magnet for removal the moment it hits play.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Silent Assassin — political decks, pillow-fort builds, and tap-down control shells all want the ability to neutralize a voltron commander or a Craterhoof threat turn after turn. The repeatable nature of the ability scales well in multiplayer, where you can rotate which threat you're neutralizing each turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but completely outclassed by interaction that doesn't require a fragile creature to stick on board. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read at smaller scale, and every other major format is a non-starter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.53 bulk tier
At $0.53, Silent Assassin sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking it up for nearly nothing. Bulk rares with niche Commander applications tend to stay flat, so treat this as a role-player you grab for a specific deck rather than a card with any price upside.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.