MetaDelver ccc8ec0

Printings

• Secret Lair Drop #1912 rare 2025-02-10
• Foundations Jumpstart #108 common 2024-11-15
• Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #223 common 2021-08-26
• Time Spiral Remastered #313 special 2021-03-19
• The List #C18-95 common 2019-11-07
• Commander 2018 #95 common 2018-08-10
• Planechase Anthology #21 common 2016-11-25
• Commander 2015 #99 common 2015-11-13
• Planechase 2012 #21 common 2012-06-01
• Betrayers of Kamigawa #44 common 2005-02-04

Rulings

• 2021-03-19
  The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
• 2021-03-19
  As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja 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.
• 2021-03-19
  The creature put onto the battlefield with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu.
• 2021-03-19
  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).
• 2021-03-19
  The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. If you wait until after the declare blockers step, because all combat damage is dealt at once, the Ninja won't normally deal combat damage.
• 2021-03-19
  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 in this case, even if it has first strike.

Archetypes that play this card

Pauper

1. Mono-Blue Faeries 100.0% of lists
2. Dimir Affinity 66.7% of lists
3. Grixis Faeries 61.5% of lists