Aven Heartstabber
- Mana cost
- {U}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Bird Assassin
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna Promos #166s (rare)
Flying
As long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has deathtouch.
When this creature dies, mill two cards, then draw a card.
Aven Heartstabber has 4 printings, first in Streets of New Capenna (2022). EDHREC ranks it #13,662 among Commander cards. It appears most in Etrata, Deadly Fugitive decks (2,091 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Aven Heartstabber most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Etrata, Deadly Fugitive: 2,091 decks
- Ramses, Assassin Lord: 882 decks
- Araumi of the Dead Tide: 653 decks
- Ezio, Blade of Vengeance: 373 decks
- Lydia Frye: 88 decks
- Achilles Davenport: 60 decks
Often played with Aven Heartstabber
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The mana value of a split card in the graveyard is the total mana value of both halves of that card. It does not have two mana values.
- : X is 0 when determining the mana value of a card in your graveyard.
- : The mana value of a land card is 0.
- : The mana value of a double-faced card in your graveyard is always the mana value of the front face.
- : If you have five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard and then some of them are removed such that you have fewer than five mana values among those cards, Aven Heartstabber loses its bonus to power and toughness. Notably, this may cause it to die if it now has damage marked on it greater than its toughness.
- : “Five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard” means there are at least five different mana values among those cards.