First printed in Ravnica: Clue Edition (2024)
Carnage Interpreter 
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.
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
MTGO price: 0.67 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Combos
19 combos from Commander Spellbook, 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
