Leap of the Hidden Blade
Altair Ibn-La'Ahad brings practical menace to combat. This legendary creature reads as a compact engine that rewards careful graveyard setup and timed attacks. With first strike and a three power body, Altair pressures blockers while triggering a reusable exile effect that turns Assassin creature cards in your graveyard into memory marked pieces of board presence. The printed attack trigger demands precise sequencing which rewards players who build a graveyard full of Assassin creatures and who can protect Altair long enough to strike.
The card is useful in midrange or value oriented decks that want repeatable, ephemeral copies on attack. When Altair attacks you may exile an Assassin creature card from your graveyard with a memory counter on it and then create tapped attacking tokens that copy each creature you own in exile with a memory counter. Those tokens vanish at end of combat which makes Altair a tool for surprise lethal turns and combat tricks rather than for static advantage. If you pilot decks that lean into recursion and tempo, Altair offers a clean, thematic way to translate your graveyard into immediate pressure.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {2}{W}{B}{R}
- 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