First printed in Modern Horizons 2 (2021)

All 4 prints

Hard Evidence

Sorcery

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with " 2 generic , Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

In the last 30 days 0.3% of Pauper decks played it (6 of 1908). Most played in Affinity.

In Limited on MTG Arena

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

Win rates of Hard Evidence in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), Premier Draft	56.6%	+1.7	+2.3	4544

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

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

In 6 of 1908 decks (0.3%).

Share of decks

0.3%

▲ 0.2 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

6 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

4.0

in the main deck

Win rate

51%

1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Affinity	9.4%	3%
UB (unclassified)	0.7%	8%

Deck	Record
Affinity Malpyrocky in Pauper Challenge 32	7-1 88%
Affinity Niederschatten in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%
UB Levi van Zoelen in Amsterdam Pauper League – 7° Leg – 2026	1-5 17%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Deck	Copies	Finish
Affinity Malpyrocky, 27 Oct	4 main	#23 1-3
Affinity G-Monteiro, 26 Oct	4 main	5-0
Affinity Niederschatten, 23 Oct	4 main	#23 3-3
Affinity G-Monteiro, 23 Oct	4 main	5-0
Affinity Malpyrocky, 22 Oct	4 main	#3 7-1
UB Levi van Zoelen, 3 Oct	4 main	#56 1-5

No recent decks in: Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander.