Shadow, Mysterious Assassin

two generic mana one black mana Legendary Creature — Human AssassinPower and toughness3/3

Deathtouch

Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.

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Shadow, Mysterious Assassin rulings

2025-06-06
If a permanent has in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
2025-06-06
Use the mana value of the sacrificed permanent as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life each opponent loses.

Shadow, Mysterious Assassin keyword rules

Deathtouch Rule 702.2

Deathtouch is a static ability.

A creature with toughness greater than 0 that’s been dealt damage by a source with deathtouch since the last time state-based actions were checked is destroyed as a state-based action. See rule 704.

Any nonzero amount of combat damage assigned to a creature by a source with deathtouch is considered to be lethal damage for the purposes of determining if a proposed combat damage assignment is valid, regardless of that creature’s toughness. See rules –d.

The deathtouch rules function no matter what zone an object with deathtouch deals damage from.

If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had deathtouch.

Multiple instances of deathtouch on the same object are redundant.