Nightshade Assassin - Time Spiral

Magic: the Gathering is a collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. In this game, players take on the role of planeswalkers who engage in battles against other planeswalkers, vying for glory, knowledge, and conquest. The deck of cards a player assembles represents the arsenal of weapons at their disposal, containing the spells they know and the creatures they can summon to fight on their behalf.

One such card is the Nightshade Assassin, an Uncommon rarity card from the Time Spiral set. This creature card has the following attributes:

Card Name: Nightshade Assassin Cost: 2BB Color: Black Card Type: Creature - Human Assassin Power/Toughness: 2/1 Card Text: First strike. When Nightshade Assassin comes into play, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Madness 1B (If you discard this card, you may play it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

The Nightshade Assassin's first strike ability allows it to strike before most other creatures, giving it an advantage in combat. Its etched ability triggers when it enters the battlefield, allowing the player to reveal a number of black cards from their hand, and then reducing the power and toughness of a target creature by that amount until the end of the turn. Additionally, the Madness ability provides the player with an alternative way to play the Nightshade Assassin, by discarding it from their hand and playing it for its Madness cost of 1B instead of putting it into the graveyard.

This unique combination of abilities makes the Nightshade Assassin a versatile and potentially powerful card in the Magic: the Gathering game, allowing players to strategically manipulate the battlefield to their advantage.

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