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Detective's Satchel

First printed in Murders at Karlov Manor (2024)

Detective's Satchel

Artifact

When this artifact enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "2 generic, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
tap: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Activate only if you've sacrificed an artifact this turn.

It's a crime lab in a bag.

Illustrated by
Andrew Mar

Legality

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

Rulings (5)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Prices

Paper price: €0.05 / $0.24 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 5 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 5 Nov 2026).

Combos

27 combos, the most popular first:

See all 27 on Commander Spellbook

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
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Premier Draft 57.5% +2.6 +5.2 35434
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Sealed 52.5% -2.0 +1.4 888
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