This card absolutely reeks of being zealously over balanced. I would not be surprised to find out this card originally had an activation something along the lines of "tap and sacrifice Zombie Assassin, destroy target creature" and cost a colorless less. But then the balancing hammer came around and hammered him so bad that the card is completely unplayable.
The entire casting cost of Zombie Assassin along with activation is now 4 colorless and a black, remove a creature in play and two creatures in your graveyard from the game to simply destroy a NONBLACK creature. That does not even follow flavor...do the zombies turn to dust? Does it take 3 zombies to take out 1 nonblack creature? Why can't they destroy black creatures?
Bad card.
Posted By:
grothesk
(4/5/2012 11:38:28 PM)
The worst part about this is the art, and I like Pete Venters. But Freud would have a field day with this.
Posted By:
blindthrall
(3/19/2011 12:01:53 PM)
This has got to be the worst hashshāshīn of the bunch.
Posted By:
Mr_Hendry
(9/26/2009 6:40:23 PM)
it's competing with Chimney Imp for blacks 5 drop.
Posted By:
spectermonger
(6/17/2010 5:30:11 PM)
Would rather play Warpath Ghoul and Terror. Same cost and you get to keep your creature.
Posted By:
ChippyForever
(8/8/2010 2:31:05 PM)
1 Time Assasin, LoL Not Really An Assasin, He Should Be A Goblin, Cuz Zombies Are GOON HEHEHEHEE
Posted By:
MasterOfEtherium
(6/26/2011 6:45:51 PM)
"Zombies don't kill, they recruit" though this guy eats to corpses, kills a creature and then destroys himself, horrible card!
Posted By:
Sironos
(5/16/2010 7:12:48 AM)
Its name is the same as its creature types.
Posted By:
Adromalath
(5/13/2012 11:02:53 AM)
Patriarch, I know how many problems you have with those barbarians, so I thought you'd want something to deal with them."
"Yes Nicol Bolas, I do have problems with them. They---where did it go?"
"Oh him? Oh, he'll be back. I promise on my millennia-old life that he'll return."
Posted By:
Ferlord
(6/3/2013 7:23:36 AM)