Decent removal. Unlike Terror, it can actually kill other black creatures, but the cost and the "tapped" effects hinder its usefulness. And with that said there are also a lot of other chaep black removal spells in the met-game right now such as Terminate and Unmake, so I doubt this card will see any future play.
bloatation
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
At first glance I thought this was mediocre removal, but I quickly changed my mind. Path to Exile, Terminate, Unmake, Terror and even Eyeblight's Ending are better than this. Unless you're obsessed with killing Maralen of the Mornsong with a non-white, non-red, splashed black deck, this is an amazingly pointless card. Even then this card would be unimpressive because it's a sorcery, and you'd have to hope your opponent taps it AND doesn't regenerate it.
mike_stubbs1
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It's Unmake that really makes this card useless. Same price, playable in white too, no stupid tapping requirement, gets around indestructibility and prevents any on-graveyard triggered ability.
I'm assuming Tommy9898 is trying to point everyone toward a cheaper version of this spell, but it's hard to tell. While Death Stroke is cheaper, it's also harder to splash for, so they both have their advantages.
Considering Royal Assassin, I think this could have been an instant, though it'd have to be heavier in the colored cost in that case, like {1}{B}{B}.
TheWrathofShane
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Murder. If this gets a functional reprint, it needs to be an instant with same mana cost.
BongRipper420
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I thought this card was bad, then I realized this card wasn't even an instant. This card is terrible!
GrayWizard
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Yurin... They really didn't read that phonetically.
Earthdawn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a fine card. Yes, there are "better" options out there, but the CMC of Assassinate is great for Limited, and I wouldn't be embarassed at all to run this in an EDH deck or a singleton game. It's even Cube worthy.
Comments (10)
At least in retrospect, this card is abysmal.
These censors stink.
Considering Royal Assassin, I think this could have been an instant, though it'd have to be heavier in the colored cost in that case, like {1}{B}{B}.