Nirkana Assassin

Creature — Vampire Assassin Ally

Whenever you gain life, Nirkana Assassin gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (30)

Neotrup on Does Nirkana Assassin's ability trigger …

2 years ago

Your understanding is correct, Nirkana Assassin deals damage at the same time as the lifelink creature, so it won't have deathtouch at that point. If the lifelink creature also has first strike, like Knight of Meadowgrain , you'll gain the life during the first strike damage step, giving Nirkana Assassin deathtouch before it deals it's combat damage.

Sinq_ on Does Nirkana Assassin's ability trigger …

2 years ago

My opponent is attacking me with two creatures, I would like to block one with Nirkana Assassin and the other with another creature that has lifelink.

Nirkana gets deathtouch whenever I gain life, but as far as I understand, the event of gaining life from lifelink doesn't occur until combat damage is dealt, at which point the assassin will have already dealt it's blocking damage, thus meaning that deathtouch would not help it here.

Is this correct?

TrEndKillHerEsy on Vamps

5 years ago

or a Nirkana Assassin

Dete on Gabe's Crypt Rats

5 years ago

for starters you could cut down on creatures like: Aether Poisoner, Child of Night, Daggerdrome Imp, Deathgaze Cockatrice, Farbog Revenant, Feral Abomination, Fetid Imp, Flensermite, Giant Scorpion, Hand of Silumgar, Hired Poisoner, Markov Patrician, Maze Abomination, Moonglove Changeling, Moonglove Winnower, Nirkana Assassin, Queen's Agent, Rancid Rats, Ruin Rat, Scrounger of Souls, Sidisi's Pet, Skittering Heartstopper Vampire Champion and replace others for: Black Cat, Burglar Rat, Cadaver Imp, Liliana's Specter, Ravenous Rats, Twisted Abomination, Gurmag Angler but would compite with Shambling Attendants for the gy. some usefuls spells you might replace or add cound be: Blessing of Leeches, Sadistic Glee, Soul Channeling, Ashes to Ashes, Evincar's Justice, Shred Memory, Dark Bargain, maybe Crypt Incursion. im out of ideas for cards, for now, and you could add more artifact ramp or artifact that can be creatures like Guardian Idol, Wayfarer's Bauble is in every deck i play, Relic of Progenitus and Nihil Spellbomb are always good gy hate.

dvdn1997 on Vampire Ally

6 years ago

I was wondering, why in modern would you choose to take the ally route? i can imagine that there are some strickly better vampires that aren't ally's that would be better, for instance Nirkana Assassin vs Gifted Aetherborn

otherwise, the deck looks like fun!

Limo on Mardu Midrange

6 years ago

You could replace it with something with life link like Child of Night. Or if you want synergies you could add in Nirkana Assassin

Ghosty on BW Drain Gain Control (Open to suggestions)

7 years ago

IMHO Fragmentize is nice card but its real place is in sideboard.

And I'd add something that can give more profit with lifegain – Bloodbond Vampire, Defiant Bloodlord, Malakir Familiar, Nirkana Assassin, Serene Steward.

Another good option here can be Geier Reach Sanitarium – will allow you to cast Alms of the Vein (which is soooo awesome that I'd put 4 of them) for madness cost and them additionally draw a card.

Ghosty on Orzhov Bloodbond

7 years ago

Nice one!

I just don't think that Accursed Witch  ^Flip belongs here.

I'd suggest Drana, Liberator of Malakir – will work fine with Lantern Scout. But if you want this deck still to be as budget as it is right now (since Drana, Liberator of Malakir can be quite expensive) you could try Makindi Patrol, Munda's Vanguard or Nirkana Assassin.

And I'd also add another copy of March from the Tomb