Chain Assassination
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Assassin's Creed #23 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.31 USD
Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Destroy target creature. If another creature died this turn, draw a card.
Chain Assassination has 2 printings, first in Assassin's Creed (2024). EDHREC ranks it #7,481 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks (7,980 on EDHREC). It has 3 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 Chain Assassination most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze: 7,980 decks
- Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad: 1,364 decks
- Shay Cormac: 1,059 decks
- Edward Kenway: 1,053 decks
- Etrata, Deadly Fugitive: 958 decks
- Ezio, Blade of Vengeance: 684 decks
- Ramses, Assassin Lord: 671 decks
- Ratonhnhaké꞉ton: 548 decks
Often played with Chain Assassination
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : If the target creature is a legal target but isn’t destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you’ll still draw a card if another creature died this turn.
- : If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Chain Assassination tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t draw a card even if another creature has died this turn.