First printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (2024)
Creature — Snake Ninja Rogue
Ninjutsu 
(, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
5/4
- Illustrated by
- Bram Sels
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (7)
- The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
- 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).
- As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature to its owner’s hand. 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, planeswalker, or battle 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, planeswalker, or battle it’s attacking.
- Your opponents can’t look at the card they own that you manifested.
- 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 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 combat damage step or end of combat step, it will be after combat damage has been dealt, so the Ninja won’t deal combat damage.
Prices
MTGO price: 4.88 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
29 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Frostcliff Siege + Orochi Soul-Reaver
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Orochi Soul-Reaver + Rising of the Day
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Orochi Soul-Reaver + Urabrask the Hidden
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Anger + Breath of Fury + Orochi Soul-Reaver
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Mass Hysteria + Orochi Soul-Reaver
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Fervor + Orochi Soul-Reaver
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Orochi Soul-Reaver + The Fire Crystal
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Hammer of Purphoros + Orochi Soul-Reaver
- Infinite Treasure tokens, Infinite artifact ETB…: Breath of Fury + Orochi Soul-Reaver + Samut, Hazoret's Champion
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Breath of Fury + Orochi Soul-Reaver + Tannuk, Steadfast Second
