The Animus
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Set
- Assassin's Creed #168 (rare)
- Price
- $0.35 USD
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target legendary creature card from a graveyard with a memory counter on it.
{T}: Until your next turn, target legendary creature you control becomes a copy of target creature card in exile with a memory counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.
The Animus has 3 printings, first in Assassin's Creed (2024). EDHREC ranks it #9,320 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks (5,986 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run The Animus most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze: 5,986 decks
- Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad: 4,414 decks
- Shaun & Rebecca, Agents: 533 decks
- Havi, the All-Father: 99 decks
- Ezio, Blade of Vengeance: 83 decks
- Bayek of Siwa: 24 decks
- Achilles Davenport: 7 decks
- Arno Dorian: 5 decks
Often played with The Animus
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The target legendary creature copies exactly what was printed on the card in exile and nothing else. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was exiled.
- : If either one of the targets of The Animus’s last ability is illegal when the ability begins to resolve, nothing will happen when the ability resolves.