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Garza's Assassin

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Garza's Assassin

Creature — Human Assassin

this creature: target nonblack creature. —Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, this card.)

$1.07

Commander: LegalModern: Legal

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Tags and classifications

Card attributes are distinct from extracted ability facts and inferred themes. AI themes and predicted tags are suggestions, not rules text.

Ability tags

Triggered

Mana costs

× 3

Classes and roles

Assassin

Creature kinds

Human

Color identity

B

Keyword tags

Recover

Mana value

Mana value 3

Theme tags

RecursionRemoval

Timing tags

Timing Sorcery

Type tags

Creature

Predicted tags are currently unavailable.

Ability classification

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

partial Extraction abilities-3

Incomplete card classification: unmodeled effect: Destroy target nonblack creature.; unmodeled effect: Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up.

Ability 1

activatedpartial

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Active zone
battlefield
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Sacrifice 1 self
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Source span
0–58

Functional categories

cadence.repeatabledelivery.activatedeconomic.consumereconomic.convertereconomic.outleteconomic.producer

Effects

payment · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • consumes battlefield_creature · self self · amount 1 · battlefield → unknown zone
    No additional explicit requirement.
  • produces death · self self · amount 1 · battlefield → graveyard
    No additional explicit requirement.
  • produces graveyard_creature · self self · amount 1 · battlefield → graveyard
    nontoken: true

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Ability 2

staticunsupported

Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Active zone
battlefield
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up.
Source span
59–303

Functional categories

delivery.static

Effects

No effect records were extracted.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Ability 3

castcomplete

Cast Garza's Assassin

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {B}{B}{B}
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self B · amount 3
    action kind: creature_spell
  • produces creature_cast · self creature · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.
Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Creature — Human Assassin

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Card relationships

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

Scoring revision: relationships-3. Loves, hates, neutral, mixed, conditional, and unknown remain distinct results.

Potential relationships

Evaluated 512 of 5,151 indexed candidates. Showing 3 of 3 bounded tied matches; alphabetical within ties.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

Conditional loves

Legendary Creature — Bat God // Land · Mana cost: Unavailable

Perspective
same controller
Status
conditional
Signed compatibility
0.500
Positive impact
0.500
Negative impact
0.000
Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability fcdfe9d5-2743-4d3e-ab57-bf0f96beaa15:1:1:abilities-3:e8cc97c3af5bf1aa0d9bfc48f008c40a966c63f3626a6f4573b1276f4521e0fd supplies mana for part of target ability 9660b7c4-7b04-4ec3-b867-299c141f77e6:0:cast:abilities-3:93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb's setup; remaining prerequisites are listed as conditions.

    enables · mana · impact 0.500 · conditional

    Conditions: missing prerequisite: requires mana (b); source supplies 1 mana for 3 total required; the same mana cannot cover multiple prerequisites; source supplies 1 of the 3 required mana; target ability requires timing=sorcery; target resource requires action_kind=creature_spell

    Source evidence

    Source ability: fcdfe9d5-2743-4d3e-ab57-bf0f96beaa15:1:1:abilities-3:e8cc97c3af5bf1aa0d9bfc48f008c40a966c63f3626a6f4573b1276f4521e0fd

    {T}: Add {B}.

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Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

Conditional loves

Sorcery // Land · Mana cost: Unavailable

Perspective
same controller
Status
conditional
Signed compatibility
0.500
Positive impact
0.500
Negative impact
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Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability 562d71b9-1646-474e-9293-55da6947a758:1:1:abilities-3:2753966f8b0101a639cee34616d7e50a990bc3434ceae23d9875d5819e6db0d5 supplies mana for part of target ability 9660b7c4-7b04-4ec3-b867-299c141f77e6:0:cast:abilities-3:93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb's setup; remaining prerequisites are listed as conditions.

    enables · mana · impact 0.500 · conditional

    Conditions: missing prerequisite: requires mana (b); source supplies 1 mana for 3 total required; the same mana cannot cover multiple prerequisites; source supplies 1 of the 3 required mana; target ability requires timing=sorcery; target resource requires action_kind=creature_spell

    Source evidence

    Source ability: 562d71b9-1646-474e-9293-55da6947a758:1:1:abilities-3:2753966f8b0101a639cee34616d7e50a990bc3434ceae23d9875d5819e6db0d5

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Beast Whisperer

Conditional loves

Creature — Elf Druid · Mana cost: {2}{G}{G}

Perspective
same controller
Status
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Signed compatibility
0.500
Positive impact
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Negative impact
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Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability 9660b7c4-7b04-4ec3-b867-299c141f77e6:0:cast:abilities-3:93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb supplies the exact creature_cast input used by target ability 5da7eea8-bb9e-47ce-a554-8a1ee058bd7a:0:0:abilities-3:6eb86471c3f9cd5b9a4cabdac0d776494e660577d8e0c390b89caa946db9a4f6.

    amplifies · creature_cast · impact 0.500 · conditional

    Conditions: source ability requires timing=sorcery

    Source evidence

    Source ability: 9660b7c4-7b04-4ec3-b867-299c141f77e6:0:cast:abilities-3:93f39a6cc7a774306f1d0e2376beef6aacb72f3e842431792792e613961b5ffb

    Cast Garza's Assassin

    Target ability: 5da7eea8-bb9e-47ce-a554-8a1ee058bd7a:0:0:abilities-3:6eb86471c3f9cd5b9a4cabdac0d776494e660577d8e0c390b89caa946db9a4f6

    Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

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Printings
SetLanguageCollectorReleasedRarityPrice
Coldsnappt572006-07-21rare—
Coldsnapes572006-07-21rare—
Coldsnapde572006-07-21rare—
Coldsnapen572006-07-21rare$1.07
Coldsnapzhs572006-07-21rare—
Coldsnapja572006-07-21rare—
Coldsnapit572006-07-21rare—
Coldsnapfr572006-07-21rare—