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Novice Inspector

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Novice Inspector

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Type line

Creature — Human Detective

Oracle text

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Rulings

  • 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.2024-02-02
  • 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.2024-02-02
  • 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.2024-02-02
  • 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.2024-02-02
  • 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.2024-02-02

Market price

$0.31

Commanders that play this card

Use over time

1 public deck with Novice Inspector saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.

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