Silent Step: Altair Ibn-La'Ahad
Altair Ibn-La'Ahad brings precise aggression to your battlefield plan. This Legendary Creature Human Assassin arrives for {2}{B}{B} with first strike and a combat-oriented exile engine that rewards careful graveyard management. When Altair attacks you can exile an Assassin creature card from your graveyard with a memory counter and then populate the attack step with token copies of every creature you own in exile that has a memory counter. Those tokens enter tapped and attacking and are exiled at end of combat which makes Altair a repeatable tempo play that leaves no long term board clutter.
Use Altair to convert sacrificial value into immediate pressure. He plays well in graveyard recursion decks and token synergies and pairs with cards that put creature cards into exile or that can add memory counters reliably. The card reads like a focused combat toolbox from the Brotherhood aediles; it grants attack step advantages while keeping the stack clean after combat. Add Altair Ibn-La'Ahad to your deck if you want efficient removal of blockers and a predictable combat plan.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {2}{B}{B}
- Card Type – Legendary Creature
- Subtypes – Human Assassin
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – First strike. Whenever Altair Ibn-La'Ahad attacks, exile up to one target Assassin creature card from your graveyard with a memory counter on it. Then for each creature card you own in exile with a memory counter on it, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of it. Exile those tokens at end of combat.
- Power / Toughness – 3/3