Covert Technician
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Human Ninja
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 4
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty #332 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.25 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 put an artifact card with mana value less than or equal to that damage from your hand onto the battlefield.
Covert Technician has 2 printings, first in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (2022). EDHREC ranks it #10,578 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks (4,429 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Covert Technician most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: 4,429 decks
- Noctis, Heir Apparent: 1,555 decks
- Taeko, the Patient Avalanche: 170 decks
- Higure, the Still Wind: 118 decks
- Kotose, the Silent Spider: 22 decks
- Scotty, Miracle Worker: 1 decks
Often played with Covert Technician
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
- : Puff of smoke not included.
- : 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. In most cases (see below), if you wait until the combatdamage step or end of combat step, it will be after combat damage has been dealt, so the Ninja won't deal combat damage.
- : As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja card stays revealed and 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.
- : 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).