Academy Manufactor

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

Daring Sleuth

When you sacrifice a Clue, transform Daring Sleuth.

Bearer of Overwhelming Truths

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever Bearer of Overwhelming Truths deals combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths

Five Hundred Year Diary

Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} for each Clue you control.
{2}, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.

Foul Play

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

Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a token, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Havengul Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
At the beginning of your end step, if you sacrificed three or more Clues this turn, transform Havengul Laboratory.

Havengul Mystery

When this land transforms into Havengul Mystery, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with Havengul Mystery leaves the battlefield, transform Havengul Mystery.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.

Havengul Laboratory // Havengul Mystery

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 "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Flashback {3}{U}

Osgood, Operation Double

When you cast this spell, create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary.
{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact.
Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

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 "{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.

Trail of Evidence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, 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.")

In Too Deep

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Enchant creature, planeswalker, or Clue
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Clue artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card" and loses all other abilities. (It's no longer a creature or planeswalker.)

James, Wandering Dad

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.

Follow Him

Investigate X times. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him

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.)

Enhanced Surveillance

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

Lazav, the Multifarious

When Lazav, the Multifarious enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{X}: Lazav, the Multifarious becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.

Pile On

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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.)

Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Mirkwood Bats

Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.)
Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Contraband Kingpin

Lifelink
Whenever an artifact you control enters, scry 1.

Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Agent of the Iron Throne

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever an artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."

Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sol Ring

Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on Vat of Rebirth.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from Vat of Rebirth: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

The first activated ability of an artifact you activate each turn costs {2} less to activate.
+1: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
−2: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature. If it isn't a Vehicle, it has base power and toughness 4/4.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact you control becomes tapped, draw a card."

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Darkwater Catacombs

Ruthless Technomancer

When Ruthless Technomancer enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

Sage of Lat-Nam

Dockside Chef

{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.

Moonstone Eulogist

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, put a +1/+1 counter on Moonstone Eulogist and you gain 1 life.

Negate

Fanatical Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Island

Swamp

Universal Surveillance

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Draw X cards.

Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Reverse Engineer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Draw two cards.

Back for Seconds

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was bargained, you may put one of those cards with mana value 4 or less onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.

Tamiyo's Logbook

{5}{U}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each other artifact you control.

Tezzeret the Schemer

+1: Create a colorless artifact token named Etherium Cell with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color."
−2: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5."

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)

Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way.
Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Pitiless Carnage

Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards.
Plot {1}{B}{B} (You may pay {1}{B}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

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.")

Charnel Serenade

Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—{2}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Dimir Signet

Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Counterspell

Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature.
Destroy target creature.
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.)

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.")

Eviscerator's Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards.
Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Candlestick

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, 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.)
{2}, Sacrifice Candlestick: Draw a card.
Equip {2}

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Esoteric Duplicator

Whenever you sacrifice Esoteric Duplicator or another artifact, you may pay {2}. If you do, at the beginning of the next end step, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.
{2}, Sacrifice Esoteric Duplicator: Draw a card.

Sinister Sabotage

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

Arcane Signet

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko, Obsessive Theorist.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Shimmer Dragon

Flying
As long as you control four or more artifacts, Shimmer Dragon has hexproof.
Tap two untapped artifacts you control: 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.

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.")

Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to Marionette Master's power.

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.

Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Copy Catchers

Flying
Whenever you surveil, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of Copy Catchers.

Curious Cadaver

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

Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.

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.

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.")

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.

Ethereal Investigator

Flying
When Ethereal Investigator enters, investigate X times, where X is the number of opponents you have. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Erdwal Illuminator

Flying
Whenever you investigate for the first time each turn, investigate an additional time.

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.
When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

The Grim Captain's Locker

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—{3}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Costly Plunder

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards.

Starving Revenant

When Starving Revenant enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Whispering Snitch

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

Seer of Stolen Sight

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever one or more artifacts and/or creatures you control are put into a graveyard from the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

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.

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