Escape Detection
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Assassin's Creed #191 (uncommon)
Freerunning—Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Escape Detection has 2 printings, first in Assassin's Creed (2024). EDHREC ranks it #13,557 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks (1,996 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 Escape Detection most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze: 1,996 decks
- Etrata, the Silencer: 697 decks
- Ezio, Blade of Vengeance: 363 decks
- Ratonhnhaké꞉ton: 297 decks
- Etrata, Deadly Fugitive: 260 decks
- Ramses, Assassin Lord: 251 decks
- Basim Ibn Ishaq: 232 decks
- Achilles Davenport: 65 decks
Often played with Escape Detection
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the target creature is an illegal target as Escape Detection tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t draw a card.
- : Once an Assassin creature or commander you control deals combat damage to a player in a turn, you can cast spells for their freerunning costs for the rest of that turn. It doesn’t matter what happens to that Assassin or commander after that.