Case of the Shifting Visage

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)

Detective of the Month

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
As long as you have the city's blessing, Detectives you control can't be blocked.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

Final-Word Phantom

Flash
Flying
During each opponent's end step, you may cast spells as though they had flash.

Follow the Bodies

Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.)
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Tangletrove Kelp

Ward {2}
At the beginning of each combat, other Clues you control become 6/6 Plant creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn.
{2}, Sacrifice Tangletrove Kelp: Draw a card.

Unshakable Tail

When Unshakable Tail enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{2}, Sacrifice a Clue: Return Unshakable Tail from your graveyard to your hand.

Counterpoint

Counter target spell. You may cast a creature, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to that spell's mana value without paying its mana cost.

Panoptic Projektor

{T}: The next face-down creature spell you cast this turn costs {3} less to cast.
If turning a face-down permanent face up causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Ransom Note

When Ransom Note enters, surveil 1.
{2}, Sacrifice Ransom Note: Choose one —
• Cloak the top card of your library.
• Goad target creature.
• Draw a card.

Confirm Suspicions

Counter target spell.
Investigate three times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil.
Exile Enhanced Surveillance: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To 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.)

Dogged Detective

When Dogged Detective 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.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return Dogged Detective from your graveyard to your hand.

Whispering Snitch

Whenever you surveil for the first time each turn, Whispering Snitch deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Discovery

Surveil 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)

Dispersal

Each opponent returns a nonland permanent they control with the highest mana value among permanents they control to its owner's hand, then discards a card.

Discovery // Dispersal

Disinformation Campaign

When Disinformation Campaign enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card.
Whenever you surveil, return Disinformation Campaign to its owner's hand.

Notion Rain

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To 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.)

Memory Vampire

Flying
Whenever Memory Vampire deals combat damage to a player, any number of target players each mill that many cards. Then you may collect evidence 9. When you do, you may cast target nonland card from defending player's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Undercover Butler

Whenever Undercover Butler attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, it can't be blocked this turn.

Agency Outfitter

Flying
When Agency Outfitter enters, you may search your graveyard, hand and/or library for a card named Magnifying Glass and/or a card named Thinking Cap and put them onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Burden of Proof

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's a Detective you control. Otherwise, it has base power and toughness 1/1 and can't block Detectives.

Cold Case Cracker

Flying
When Cold Case Cracker dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

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 Crimestopper Sprite 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.)

Cryptic Coat

When Cryptic Coat enters, cloak the top card of your library, then attach Cryptic Coat to it. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.
{1}{U}: Return Cryptic Coat to its owner's hand.

Curious Inquiry

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, investigate." (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Deduce

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Dramatic Accusation

Enchant creature
When Dramatic Accusation enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
{U}{U}: Shuffle enchanted creature into its owner's library.

Eliminate the Impossible

Investigate. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn. If any of them are suspected, they're no longer suspected. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Exit Specialist

Exit Specialist can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
Disguise {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When Exit Specialist is turned face up, return another target creature to its owner's hand.

Forensic Researcher

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control.
{T}, Collect evidence 3: Tap target creature you don't control. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)

Hotshot Investigators

When Hotshot Investigators 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 "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Jaded Analyst

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

Lost in the Maze

Flash
When Lost in the Maze enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

Mistway Spy

Flying
Disguise {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When Mistway Spy is turned face up, until end of turn, whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, investigate.

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.)

Projektor Inspector

Whenever Projektor Inspector 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.

Reasonable Doubt

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Suspect up to one target creature. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Reenact the Crime

Exile target nonland card in a graveyard that was put there from anywhere this turn. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Steamcore Scholar

Flying, vigilance
When Steamcore Scholar enters, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card or a creature card with flying.

Surveillance Monitor

When Surveillance Monitor enters, you may collect evidence 4. (Exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater from your graveyard.)
Whenever you collect evidence, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Basilica Stalker

Flying
Whenever Basilica Stalker deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life and surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Disguise {4}{B} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Extract a Confession

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.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If evidence was collected, instead each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control.

Homicide Investigator

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Murder

It Doesn't Add Up

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)

Persuasive Interrogators

When Persuasive Interrogators enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target opponent gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Toxin Analysis

Target creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Unscrupulous Agent

When Unscrupulous Agent enters, target opponent exiles a card from their hand.

Curious Cadaver

Flying
When you sacrifice a Clue, return Curious Cadaver from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Drag the Canal

Create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token. If a creature died this turn, you gain 2 life, surveil 2, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Faerie Snoop

Flying
Disguise {1}{U/B}{U/B} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When Faerie Snoop is turned face up, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Thinking Cap

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip Detective {1}
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Magnifying Glass

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Public Thoroughfare

Public Thoroughfare enters tapped.
When Public Thoroughfare enters, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped artifact or land you control.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Conspiracy Unraveler

Flying
You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.)

Lazav, Wearer of Faces

Whenever Lazav, Wearer of Faces attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.

Incriminate

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. That player sacrifices one of them of their choice.

Wiretapping

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Whenever you draw your first card during each of your draw steps, draw a card. Then if you have nine or more cards in hand, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Rogues' Gallery

For each color, return up to one target creature card of that color from your graveyard to your hand.

Hostile Investigator

When Hostile Investigator enters, target opponent discards a card.
Whenever one or more players discard one or more cards, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Nick Valentine, Private Eye can't be blocked except by artifact creatures.
Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Piper Wright, Publick Reporter

Whenever Piper Wright deals combat damage to a player, investigate that many times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Tunnel Surveyor

When Tunnel Surveyor enters, create a 1/1 white Glimmer enchantment creature token.

Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Flying, ward {3}
Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token.
While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Lavinia, Foil to Conspiracy

Vigilance
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only during an opponent's turn.

Call a Surprise Witness

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a flying counter on it. It's a Spirit in addition to its other types.

Case of the Uneaten Feast

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
To solve — You've gained 5 or more life this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Sacrifice this Case: Creature cards in your graveyard gain "You may cast this card from your graveyard" until end of turn.

Griffnaut Tracker

Flying
When Griffnaut Tracker enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard.

Case of the Pilfered Proof

Whenever a Detective you control enters or is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
To solve — You control three or more Detectives. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Clue token are created instead. (It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Inside Source

When Inside Source enters, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.
{3}, {T}: Target Detective you control gets +2/+0 and gains vigilance until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Makeshift Binding

When Makeshift Binding enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until Makeshift Binding leaves the battlefield. You gain 2 life.

No Witnesses

Each player who controls the most creatures investigates. Then destroy all creatures. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Marketwatch Phantom

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, Marketwatch Phantom gains flying until end of turn.

Make Your Move

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

Perimeter Enforcer

Flying, lifelink
Whenever another Detective you control enters and whenever a Detective you control is turned face up, Perimeter Enforcer gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Not on My Watch

Novice Inspector

When Novice Inspector enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

On the Job

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Tenth District Hero

{1}{W}, Collect evidence 2: Tenth District Hero becomes a Human Detective with base power and toughness 4/4 and gains vigilance.
{2}{W}, Collect evidence 4: If Tenth District Hero is a Detective, it becomes a legendary creature named Mileva, the Stalwart, it has base power and toughness 5/5, and it gains "Other creatures you control have indestructible."

Wojek Investigator

Flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate once for each opponent who has more cards in hand than you. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth

Vigilance
When Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{X}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Clue: You draw X cards and gain X life.

Seasoned Consultant

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

Granite Witness

Flying, vigilance
Disguise {W/U}{W/U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When Granite Witness is turned face up, you may tap or untap target creature.

Ezrim, Agency Chief

Flying
When Ezrim, Agency Chief enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{1}, Sacrifice an artifact: Ezrim gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or hexproof until end of turn.

Officious Interrogation

This spell costs {W}{U} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target players. Investigate X times, where X is the total number of creatures those players control.

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.

Merchant of Truth

Flying
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate.
Clues you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Sally Sparrow

You may cast creature spells as though they had flash.
Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

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