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Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
Other creatures you control are Assassins in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. Face-down creatures you control have menace. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
“Face-down Assassin army that draws cards and deals damage with every flip.”
Roshan, Hidden Magister turns your deck into a face-down creature factory that rewards you for flipping things up. Your creatures become Assassins, and face-down creatures gain menace, making them harder to block. Every time you turn a permanent face-up, you draw a card and lose a little life—but the card draw advantage usually outweighs the damage, especially in a longer game. You'll fill your deck with cheap morph creatures and manifests to keep the flips flowing.
The core gameplan is to go wide with evasive face-down threats while generating card advantage through the flip trigger. Cards like Deathmist Raptor, Whisperwood Elemental, and Ixidron synergize perfectly, turning your board into a hidden army. You can also abuse cards that force creatures face-down or flip them multiple times. The deck wins by grinding out opponents with menacing threats, card draw, and Assassin synergies—it's a midrange grind that slowly takes over the board.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Morph creatures like Stratus Dancer and Cloudform are cheap; skip pricey Ixidron and use Deathmist Raptor's budget reprints instead.
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