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Commander

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Hargilde, Kindly Runechanter
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. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.
Partner—Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
Legendary Creature - Human
Hargilde, Kindly Runechanter (slx) 5
Wernog, Rider's Chaplain
When Wernog, Rider's Chaplain enters or leaves the battlefield, each opponent may investigate. Each opponent who doesn't loses 1 life. You investigate X times, where X is one plus the number of opponents who investigated this way.
Partner—Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
Legendary Creature - Human
Wernog, Rider's Chaplain (slx) 8

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Copy

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Lazav, Wearer of Faces
Whenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: 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.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Detective
Lazav, Wearer of Faces (mkm) 318

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Draw

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Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth
Vigilance
When Alquist Proft enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
,
, Sacrifice a Clue: You draw X cards and gain X life.
Legendary Creature - Human Detective
Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth (mkm) 355
Bygone Bishop
Flying
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Creature - Cleric Spirit
Bygone Bishop (clb) 689
Case File Auditor
When this creature enters and whenever you solve a Case, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast Case spells.
Creature - Human Detective
Case File Auditor (mkm) 7
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Enchantment - Aura
Curious Inquiry (mkm) 51
Deduce
Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Instant
Deduce (mkm) 52
Dennick, Pious Apprentice
Lifelink
Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.
Disturb
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition (mid) 317Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition (mid) 317
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth
Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: 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.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth (mic) 3
Ezrim, Agency Chief
Flying
When Ezrim enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice an artifact: Ezrim gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or hexproof until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Archon Detective
Ezrim, Agency Chief (mkm) 202
Forensic Gadgeteer
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost
less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Creature - Artificer Vedalken Detective
Forensic Gadgeteer (mkm) 57
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Creature - Human Detective
Homicide Investigator (mkm) 86
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.)
Creature - Angel Detective
Merchant of Truth (mkc) 322
Nick Valentine, Private Eye
Nick Valentine 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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legendary Creature Artifact - Detective Synth
Nick Valentine, Private Eye (pip) 35
Phenomenon Investigators
As this creature enters, choose Believe or Doubt.
• Believe — Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Horror enchantment creature token.
• Doubt — At the beginning of your end step, you may return a nonland permanent you own to your hand. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Human Detective
Phenomenon Investigators (dsc) 65
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Human Detective
Piper Wright, Publick Reporter (pip) 907
Proft's Eidetic Memory
When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.
Legendary Enchantment
Proft's Eidetic Memory (mkm) 396
Sage of Lat-Nam
, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Creature - Human Artificer
Sage of Lat-Nam (plst) DOM-64
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 383
Steamcore Scholar
Flying, vigilance
When this creature enters, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card or a creature card with flying.
Creature - Weird Detective
Steamcore Scholar (mkm) 71
Vanish into Memory
Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to that creature's toughness.
Instant
Vanish into Memory (afc) 196

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Evasion

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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
Private Eye (mkm) 223
Senator Peacock
Artifacts you control are Clues in addition to their other types and have "
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Senator Peacock (clu) 2

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Finisher

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Kappa Cannoneer
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Ward

Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Warrior Turtle
Kappa Cannoneer (eoc) 74
Persuasive Interrogators
When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: 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.)
Creature - Gorgon Detective
Persuasive Interrogators (mkm) 345

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Land

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Azorius Chancery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (ecc) 59
Desolate Mire
,
: Add
.
Land
Desolate Mire (fic) 386
Forlorn Flats
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
: Add
or
.
Land - Desert
Forlorn Flats (otj) 258
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ecl) 270
Meandering River
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Meandering River (scd) 308
Orzhov Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Orzhov Guildgate (fdn) 692
Plains
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (ecl) 269
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
Public Thoroughfare (mkm) 265
Scene of the Crime
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Artifact Land - Clue
Scene of the Crime (mkm) 267
Skybridge Towers
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Skybridge Towers (snc) 354
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (eoc) 181
Study
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Land
Study (clu) 21
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ecl) 271

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Lifegain

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Curse of Vitality
Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you gain 2 life. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Curse of Vitality (c17) 3
Perimeter Enforcer
Flying, lifelink
Whenever another Detective you control enters and whenever a Detective you control is turned face up, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Human Detective
Perimeter Enforcer (mkm) 31
Queza, Augur of Agonies
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Advisor Octopus
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 326

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Protection

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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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Instant
Eliminate the Impossible (mkm) 54
Tenth District Hero
, Collect evidence 2: This creature becomes a Human Detective with base power and toughness 4/4 and gains vigilance.
, Collect evidence 4: If this creature 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."
Creature - Human
Tenth District Hero (mkm) 34

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Ramp

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James, Wandering Dad
: Add
. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
Legendary Creature - Human Scientist
James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him (pip) 31
Peregrine Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Creature - Drake
Peregrine Drake (sld) 1488★
Pillar of Origins
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.
Artifact
Pillar of Origins (cmm) 970
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 211
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
Flying, ward

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.)
Legendary Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10

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Recursion

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Curious Cadaver
Flying
When you sacrifice a Clue, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie Detective
Curious Cadaver (mkm) 358
Revival
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rvr) 241

Recursion

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Removal

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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.
Enchantment - Aura
Burden of Proof (mkm) 42
Dire Tactics
Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Instant
Dire Tactics (iko) 183
Foul Play
Destroy target creature with power 2 or less. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Sorcery
Foul Play (j25) 442
Merciless Eviction
Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.
Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (onc) 120
Murder
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Murder (j25) 467
Orzhov Charm
Choose one —
• Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand.
• Destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness.
• Return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Instant
Orzhov Charm (gtc) 185
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
Out Cold (mkm) 66
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (ecc) 65
Slice from the Shadows
This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Instant
Slice from the Shadows (mkm) 103
Split Up
Choose one —
• Destroy all tapped creatures.
• Destroy all untapped creatures.
Sorcery
Split Up (dsk) 32
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (fic) 331

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Stax

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Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (mb2) 86

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Tokens

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Case of the Filched Falcon
When this Case enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
To solve — You control three or more artifacts. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved —
, Sacrifice this Case: Put four +1/+1 counters on target noncreature artifact. It becomes a 0/0 Bird creature with flying in addition to its other types.
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Filched Falcon (mkm) 44
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Pilfered Proof (mkm) 9
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Instant
Drag the Canal (mkm) 199
Ethereal Investigator
Flying
When this creature enters, investigate X times, where X is the number of opponents you have. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Creature - Spirit
Ethereal Investigator (mkc) 105
Hidden Stockpile
Revolt — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
, Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1.
Enchantment
Hidden Stockpile (plst) AER-129
Inquisitor Eisenhorn
You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, create Cherubael, a legendary 4/4 black Demon creature token with flying.
Whenever Inquisitor Eisenhorn deals combat damage to a player, investigate that many times. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legendary Creature - Human Inquisitor
Inquisitor Eisenhorn (40k) 127
Officious Interrogation
This spell costs
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.
Instant
Officious Interrogation (mkm) 222
Prince Imrahil the Fair
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Prince Imrahil the Fair (ltr) 219
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, investigate for each opponent who lost life this turn.
Whenever a Clue you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch (mkm) 234

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39 pips - 34 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
45 pips - 40 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
25 pips - 21 cards
12 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 4 cards
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