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Suspicious Detonation

First printed in Murders at Karlov Manor (2024)

Suspicious Detonation

Sorcery

This spell costs 3 generic less to cast if you've sacrificed an artifact this turn.
This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Suspicious Detonation deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Clearly someone wanted us to find this."
—Runubi of the Foundway Associates

Illustrated by
Joe Slucher

Legality

Ruling (1)

  • If you target a creature or planeswalker with ward, you may still pay the ward cost, but Suspicious Detonation won't be countered even if you don't.

Prices

Paper price: €0.02 / $0.09 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 6 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 6 Nov 2026).

Limited On MTG Arena

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

Win rates of Suspicious Detonation in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Premier Draft 51.1% -3.9 -2.4 38358
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Sealed 50.7% -3.8 -2.9 3049
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