First printed in Fallout (2024)
Legendary Creature — Human Detective
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.
"You can't stop the press."
1/2
- Illustrated by
- Rafater
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (2)
- If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, if you sacrifice a nontoken Clue artifact, such as Candy Trail from the Wilds of Eldraine set, Piper Wright's last ability will trigger.
- Piper Wright's last ability triggers whenever you sacrifice a Clue for any reason, not just to activate a Clue's activated ability.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.4 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
13 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite turns, Lock: Piper Wright, Publick Reporter + Time Sieve
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite card draw…: Krark-Clan Ironworks + Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
- Near-infinite turns, Lock: Piper Wright, Publick Reporter + Sage of Hours
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Arcbound Ravager + Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
- Infinite mill, Infinite self-mill…: Grinding Station + Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Atog + Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Lonis, Genetics Expert + Megatog + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Lithatog + Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter + Ravenous Intruder
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Lonis, Genetics Expert + Piper Wright, Publick Reporter + Sarcatog
