Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Ninja
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa #44 (common)
- Price
- $1.94 USD
Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Ninja of the Deep Hours has 13 printings, first in Betrayers of Kamigawa (2005). EDHREC ranks it #3,685 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks (23,666 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Subjective Reality - Commander 2018, led by Aminatou, the Fateshifter
- Swell the Host - Commander 2015, led by Ezuri, Claw of Progress
Commanders that run Ninja of the Deep Hours most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: 23,666 decks
- Goro-Goro and Satoru: 4,947 decks
- Splinter, Radical Rat: 3,892 decks
- Satoru Umezawa: 3,245 decks
- Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima: 1,942 decks
- Noctis, Heir Apparent: 828 decks
- Satoru, the Infiltrator: 795 decks
- Taeko, the Patient Avalanche: 731 decks
Often played with Ninja of the Deep Hours
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. If you wait until after the declare blockers step, because all combat damage is dealt at once, the Ninja won't normally deal combat damage.
- : Although the Ninja is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).
- : The creature put onto the battlefield with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu.
- : As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja isn't put onto the battlefield until the ability resolves. If it leaves your hand before then, it won't enter the battlefield at all.
- : If a creature in combat has first strike or double strike, you can activate the ninjutsu ability during the first-strike combat damage step. The Ninja will deal combat damage during the regular combat damage step in this case, even if it has first strike.
- : The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.