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Bygone Bishop

First printed in Shadows over Innistrad (2016)

All 5 prints

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  • Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR) #18, 2023 (digital)
  • Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #689, 2022
  • Crimson Vow Commander (VOC) #80, 2021
  • Shadows over Innistrad Promos (PSOI) #8s, 2016
  • Shadows over Innistrad (SOI) #8, 2016

Bygone Bishop

Creature — Spirit Cleric

Flying
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "2 generic, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

2/3

Illustrated by
Jason A. Engle

Legality

Legal in
Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in
Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl

Rulings (4)
  • 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.
  • Casting a spell for an alternative cost, such as a madness cost, doesn't change its mana value. For example, casting Twins of Maurer Estate (a card with mana cost 4 genericBlack and madness cost 2 genericBlack) for its madness cost will not cause Bygone Bishop's ability to trigger.
  • 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: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR), Premier Draft 60.9% +6.6 +5.1 4233
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Combos

9 combos, the most popular first: