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Reasonable Doubt

First printed in Murders at Karlov Manor (2024)

Reasonable Doubt

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays 2 generic.
Suspect up to one target creature. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

"Merle had the motive, but Blovinac was the one caught with the murder weapon. And who was the seven-foot-tall hooded figure? This case is a mess!"

Illustrated by
Betty Jiang

Legality

Rulings (6)

  • You can't cast Reasonable Doubt just to suspect a creature. There has to be a spell on the stack that's a legal target for Reasonable Doubt.
  • There's no limit to the number of creatures that can be suspected simultaneously. Suspecting a new creature doesn't cause other creatures to stop being suspected.
  • If a suspected creature loses all abilities, it will lose menace and "This creature can't block", but it won't stop being suspected.
  • Being suspected isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a suspected creature, it won't be suspected.
  • When an effect suspects a creature, it becomes suspected. It gains menace and "This creature can't block" for as long as it's suspected. It stays suspected until it leaves the battlefield or another effect causes it to no longer be suspected.
  • If a creature is already suspected, suspecting it again won't have any effect.

Prices

Paper price: €0.10 / $0.19 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket and TCGplayer through MTGJSON, 2 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 2 Nov 2026).

Limited On MTG Arena

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

Win rates of Reasonable Doubt in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Premier Draft 56.1% +1.2 +2.1 58065
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Sealed 55.2% +0.7 +2.8 1868
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