Nightshade Assassin Price
3 printings · 3 sets · first printed 2006
Nightshade Assassin has been printed 3 times across 3 sets, first in 2006 and most recently in 2021. Right now the cheapest printing is Time Spiral #121 at $0.19, while the most expensive is Commander 2019 #123 at $0.37. The median across 3 priced printings is $0.25. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 3x, including dedicated reprint sets like Time Spiral Remastered, Commander 2019.
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Every Nightshade Assassin Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time Spiral #121 (U) Cheapest | 2006 | $0.19 | $0.02 |
| Time Spiral Remastered #128 (U) | 2021 | $0.25 | — |
| Commander 2019 #123 (U) | 2019 | $0.37 | $0.01 |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
When this creature enters, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 3 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
11 PrecedentsIf the target creature becomes an illegal target, you don't reveal any cards.
You choose how many cards to reveal and which as Nightshade Assassin's triggered ability resolves. Players can't take actions between the time you reveal cards and the time the target creature gets -X/-X.
If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.
Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.
A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.
If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.