Detectives • (Azorius Pauper EDH deck) • Archidekt

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Private Eye

Other Detectives you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, target Detective can't be blocked this turn.

Creature - Homunculus Detective

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Commander

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Momentary Blink

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Blink

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Daily Bugle Reporters

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Puff Piece — Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
• Investigative Journalism — Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Citizen

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Inspiring Roar

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Selfless Police Captain

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.

Creature - Human Detective

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Vengeful Townsfolk

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Human Citizen

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Counters

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Granite Witness

Flying, vigilance
Disguise

(You may cast this card face down for

as a 2/2 creature with ward

. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target creature.

Creature Artifact - Gargoyle Detective

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Humongulus

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature - Homunculus

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Jaded Analyst

Defender
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature loses defender and gains vigilance until end of turn.

Creature - Human Detective

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

Museum Nightwatch

When this creature dies, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.
Disguise

(You may cast this card face down for

as a 2/2 creature with ward

. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Creature - Soldier Centaur

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Seasoned Consultant

Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature - Human Detective

$0.35 $0.05 $0.15

Creature

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Benthic Criminologists

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$0.35 $0.03 $0.15

Cold Case Cracker

Flying
When this creature dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature - Spirit Detective

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Deduce

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Novice Inspector

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature - Human Detective

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Projektor Inspector

Whenever this creature or another Detective you control enters and whenever a Detective you control is turned face up, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature - Human Detective

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Secrets of the Key

Investigate. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, investigate twice instead. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Flashback

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Sky Crier

Flying, lifelink

: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature - Bird Citizen

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Thraben Inspector

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Draw

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Security Bypass

Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is attacking alone, it can't be blocked.
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives." (Its controller draws a card, then discards a card. If they discarded a nonland card, they put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Evasion

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Archway Commons

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

Escape Tunnel

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Public Thoroughfare

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped artifact or land you control.

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Town

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Skybridge Towers

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Transguild Promenade

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

University Campus

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Land

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Speakeasy Server

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each other creature you control.

Creature - Bird Citizen

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Lifegain

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Dimir Informant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Mill

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Contentious Plan

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.37 $0.25

Guildpact Informant

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$1.49 $0.51 $0.15

Proliferate

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Rootborn Defenses

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.18 $0.18

Saving Grasp

Return target creature you own to your hand.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Protection

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Auspicious Arrival

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Behind the Mask

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Until end of turn, target artifact or creature becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/3. If evidence was collected, it has base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn instead.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Brass Knuckles

When you cast this spell, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
Equipped creature has double strike as long as two or more Equipment are attached to it.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Due Diligence

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, target creature you control other than enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance until end of turn.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

On the Job

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Quick-Draw Dagger

Flash
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains first strike until end of turn.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Thinking Cap

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip Detective

Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Pump

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.52 $0.43

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker

(You may pay an additional

any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.

: Add

for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.35 $0.19

Magnifying Glass

: Add

: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Artifact

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $2.77 $2.44

Unblinking Observer

: Add

. Spend this mana only to pay a disturb cost or cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Creature - Homunculus

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Ramp

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Flood of Recollection

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Flood of Recollection.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Recommission

Return target artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If a creature enters this way, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Resurrection

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Recursion

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Break Ties

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
Reinforce 1—

(

, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Crimestopper Sprite

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature. If evidence was collected, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Creature - Faerie Detective

$0.35 $0.04 $0.15

Curious Farm Animals

When this creature dies, you gain 3 life.

, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.

Creature - Bird Boar Ox Elk

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Dramatic Accusation

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

: Shuffle enchanted creature into its owner's library.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Gone Missing

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Griffnaut Tracker

Flying
When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard.

Creature - Human Detective

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Hotshot Investigators

When this creature enters, return up to one other target creature to its owner's hand. If you controlled it, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature - Vedalken Detective

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Jailbreak Scheme

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It can't be blocked this turn.
+

— Target artifact or creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Leave No Trace

Radiance — Destroy target enchantment and each other enchantment that shares a color with it.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Light of Hope

Choose one —
• You gain 4 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Instant

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Make Your Move

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Out Cold

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Tap up to two target creatures and put a stun counter on each of them. Investigate. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Press for Answers

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

Reasonable Doubt

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
Suspect up to one target creature. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Silent Departure

Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Unauthorized Exit

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Unexplained Disappearance

Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Witness Protection

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Removal

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Floodhound

: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature - Elemental Dog

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Hard Evidence

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

Inside Source

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

: Target Detective you control gets +2/+0 and gains vigilance until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Human Citizen

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $46.72

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.56Total Mana Value: 159.00

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Commander

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Mill

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Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

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Tokens

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28 pips - 26 cards

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21 mana - 21 cards

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32 pips - 31 cards

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26 mana - 26 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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3 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.56Total Mana Value: 159.00

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