Mukotai Ambusher
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Rat Ninja
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 2
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty #342 (common)
- Price
- $0.22 USD
Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Lifelink
Mukotai Ambusher has 2 printings, first in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (2022). EDHREC ranks it #10,625 among Commander cards. It appears most in Karumonix, the Rat King decks (980 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Mukotai Ambusher most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Karumonix, the Rat King: 980 decks
- Marrow-Gnawer: 919 decks
- Dark Leo & Shredder: 630 decks
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm: 318 decks
- Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni: 170 decks
- Taeko, the Patient Avalanche: 109 decks
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King: 72 decks
- Patron of the Nezumi: 35 decks
Often played with Mukotai Ambusher
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).
- : 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 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.
- : 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.
- : Puff of smoke not included.