Moonblade Shinobi
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Ninja
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 2
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #220 (common)
Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{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, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.
Moonblade Shinobi has 2 printings, first in Modern Horizons (2019). EDHREC ranks it #9,887 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks (7,421 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Moonblade Shinobi most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: 7,421 decks
- Splinter, Radical Rat: 1,019 decks
- Satoru, the Infiltrator: 374 decks
- Taeko, the Patient Avalanche: 325 decks
- Higure, the Still Wind: 117 decks
- Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar: 81 decks
- Ukkima, Stalking Shadow: 22 decks
- Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot: 20 decks
Often played with Moonblade Shinobi
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
- : 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 with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu; in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature’s controller chooses which player or planeswalker it’s attacking.
- : 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, even if it has first strike.
- : 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.