Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad: Legendary Creature - Human Assassin, Assassin's Creed. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {R}{W}{B}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
- Colour identity
- White, black and red (WBR)
- Power / toughness
- 3/3
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Assassin's Creed (ACR)
- Released
- 2024-07-05
- Collector number
- 45
- Artist
- Axel Sauerwald
- Commander rank
- 7,184 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- First strike
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white, black and red legendary creature from Assassin's Creed (ACR), a draft-focused set released in July 2024. It is collector number 45 in that set, with art by Axel Sauerwald. It costs {R}{W}{B} (one white, one black and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is white, black and red. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. Assassin's Creed is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.78 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.78 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Assassin's Creed (ACR) #137 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Assassin's Creed (ACR) #225 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Assassin's Creed (ACR) #268 | Mythic | 2024 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, newest first.
- Although the tokens enter the battlefield attacking, they were never declared as attacking creatures. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when they enter the battlefield attacking.
- If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
- Each of the tokens copies exactly what was printed on the card in exile and nothing else. They don't copy any information about the object the card was before it was exiled.
- You choose which player, planeswalker, or battle the tokens are attacking. Each token can enter attacking a different player, planeswalker, or battle, and they don't need to be the same one that Altaïr is attacking.
- If a card copied by one of the tokens had any "when [this permanent] enters the battlefield" abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it's created. Similarly, any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities that any of the tokens have copied will also work.
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