B/R/WEDHREC #6449

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

First strike Whenever Altaïr attacks, exile up to one target Assassin creature card from your graveyard with a memory counter on it. Then for each creature card you own in exile with a memory counter on it, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of it. Exile those tokens at end of combat.

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“Recycle graveyard Assassins into growing waves of attacking tokens.”

PlaystyleMidrange

DifficultyIntermediate

Wins viaCombat damage, Commander damage

ThemesReanimator, Tokens, Sacrifice, Graveyard

Strategy

How this commander wants to play

Altaïr is a recursion engine that turns your graveyard into an army. Every time he attacks, you exile an Assassin from your graveyard with a memory counter, then create tapped attacking copies of every creature card you own in exile with memory counters. This means you're building up a repeatable supply of creatures that attack repeatedly, turning single creatures into an exponential damage source.

The deck wants to fill your graveyard with Assassins and other creatures early, then use Altaïr to recycle them as temporary tokens. You're not trying to keep creatures on the battlefield—instead, you're leveraging the graveyard as a resource and abusing the fact that your tokens enter tapped and attacking. Supporting cards should help you mill creatures into the graveyard, protect Altaïr, and generate value from repeated combat damage. This is a midrange strategy that scales quickly once Altaïr connects a few times.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.

Key Synergies

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Budget Build

Same gameplan, less money

Skip expensive tutors like Mystical Tutor; use self-mill cards like Stitcher's Supplier and Satyr Wayfinder instead. Replace pricey lands with basic dual-color lands and tap-slowly.