First printed in Ravnica: Clue Edition (2024)
Creature — Devil Detective
When this creature enters, discard your hand, then investigate four times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, this creature gets +2/+2 and has menace.
3/3
- Illustrated by
- Justine Cruz
- Watermark
- Rakdos
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (6)
- Some abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Clue". Those abilities trigger whenever you sacrifice a Clue for any reason, not just to activate a Clue's activated ability.
- Once Carnage Interpreter has been blocked, causing it to gain menace by removing cards from your hand won't cause it to stop being blocked.
- Some spells and abilities that investigate may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Clue tokens.
- If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Wrench to pay for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's activated ability.
- You can't sacrifice a Clue to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Clue token to activate its own ability and also to activate Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's ability.
- Clue is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some cards with other permanent types, it's never a creature type, a land type, or anything but an artifact type.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.67 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
19 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Deadeye Navigator
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Kaya, Geist Hunter + Meticulous Excavation
- Infinite Clue tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Academy Manufactor + Bard, King of Dale + Carnage Interpreter + Meticulous Excavation
- Infinite Clue tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Academy Manufactor + Bard, King of Dale + Carnage Interpreter + Temur Sabertooth
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Exalted Sunborn + Meticulous Excavation
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Exalted Sunborn + Temur Sabertooth
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Elspeth, Storm Slayer + Meticulous Excavation
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Elspeth, Storm Slayer + Temur Sabertooth
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Anointed Procession + Carnage Interpreter + Meticulous Excavation
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Academy Manufactor + Carnage Interpreter + Meticulous Excavation + Parallel Lives
