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Moonsnare Specialist
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Moonsnare Specialist

{3}{U}

Creature — Human Ninja

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)

When this creature enters, return up to one target creature to its owner's hand.

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Ninjutsu
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO #335)
Rarity
Common
Mana value
4
Released
2022-02-18
Artist
Hisashi Momose
EDHREC rank
#7,164
Colour identity
{U}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.46
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Combos 4

Thousand-Faced Shadow+Great Whale+Moonsnare Specialist
{U}
Infinite combat damage to one opponentInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature tokensReturn any number of creatures to their owners' hands
Satoru Umezawa+Great Whale+Moonsnare Specialist
{U}{B}
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBReturn any number of creatures to their owners' hands
Thousand-Faced Shadow+Palinchron+Moonsnare Specialist
{U}
Infinite combat damage to one opponentInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature tokensReturn any number of creatures to their owners' hands
Satoru Umezawa+Palinchron+Moonsnare Specialist
{U}{B}
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBReturn any number of creatures to their owners' hands

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2022-02-18

    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).

  • 2022-02-18

    As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. 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.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    Puff of smoke not included.

  • 2022-02-18

    The creature with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker 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 or planeswalker it's attacking.

  • 2022-02-18

    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 combatdamage step or end of combat step, it will be after combat damage has been dealt, so the Ninja won't deal combat damage.

  • 2022-02-18

    The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.

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