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Tsabo's Assassin

Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Assassin2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

What this assassin reads isn't the creature in front of it but the whole battlefield's color census: tap it and it polls every permanent for the most-represented color, then fires only on a creature that shares it. Crucially, colorless permanents don't vote, so the relevant count is the colored permanents on the board: enchantments, colored artifacts, planeswalkers, colored lands, and most of all creatures. In a table heavy on one color, the assassin becomes a precise answer against exactly that color; spread the colors evenly and ties widen its reach, since a color tied for most-common counts too. The ability carries no timing clause, so the removal fires at instant speed, and the no-regeneration rider closes the door on anything that would otherwise crawl back. The cleverness is also the catch: the killable color recalculates with every shift in the board state, so the same 1/1 can tighten or loosen its threat range turn to turn without anyone touching it. And because it's an activated ability you choose to point, a board where your own color dominates simply narrows what the assassin can legally kill on opposing creatures; you never have to fire it at your own. It belongs to the strain of early color-mattering design that treated the dominant color on the battlefield as a readable resource. Most of those cards handed out upside for color counting; this one inverts the idea into a kill condition, asking its controller to track the table's color math rather than the spell in hand.

Tsabo's Assassin (wc01)
WC01 · #ar128sbrare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Destroy target creature if it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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