Prosperous Thief
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Ninja
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 2
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty #336 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.39 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 one or more Ninja or Rogue creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Prosperous Thief has 3 printings, first in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (2022). EDHREC ranks it #2,599 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks (26,762 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 Prosperous Thief most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: 26,762 decks
- Satoru Umezawa: 6,007 decks
- Goro-Goro and Satoru: 5,820 decks
- Splinter, Radical Rat: 4,915 decks
- Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima: 3,122 decks
- Anowon, the Ruin Thief: 1,756 decks
- Alela, Cunning Conqueror: 1,750 decks
- Felix Five-Boots: 1,482 decks
Often played with Prosperous Thief
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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 ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
- : 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.
- : Puff of smoke not included.
- : 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.
- : 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 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.