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Budget Detective Tribal
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $65.02
Salt sum: 30.83
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Commander

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Ezrim, Agency Chief

Flying When Ezrim enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {1}, Sacrifice an artifact: Ezrim gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or hexproof until end of turn.

Creature
Ezrim, Agency Chief (mkm) 202

Commander

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Counterspells

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (fdn) 710

Counterspells

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Land

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Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (drc) 159
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (m3c) 358
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 278
Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (cmm) 1019
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (mkc) 281
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (mkc) 294
Study

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Study (clu) 21

Land

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Artifact/Enchantment Removal

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Disenchant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Disenchant (scd) 20
Requisition Raid

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Destroy target artifact. + {1} — Destroy target enchantment. + {1} — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Sorcery
Requisition Raid (otj) 26

Artifact/Enchantment Removal

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Detective Payoffs

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Case of the Pilfered Proof

Whenever a Detective you control enters or is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on it. To solve — You control three or more Detectives. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Clue token are created instead. (It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Case of the Pilfered Proof (mkm) 9

Detective Payoffs

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Pump

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Thinking Cap

Equipped creature gets +1/+2. Equip Detective {1} Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Thinking Cap (mkm) 257

Pump

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Board Wipes

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (moc) 172
Starfall Invocation

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Destroy all creatures. If the gift was promised, return a creature card put into your graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Starfall Invocation (blb) 298
Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Time Wipe (dsc) 237

Board Wipes

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Detectives

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Agency Outfitter

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your graveyard, hand and/or library for a card named Magnifying Glass and/or a card named Thinking Cap and put them onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Creature
Agency Outfitter (mkm) 38
Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth

Vigilance When Alquist Proft enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {X}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Clue: You draw X cards and gain X life.

Creature
Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth (pmkm) 185s
Cold Case Cracker

Flying When this creature dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Cold Case Cracker (mkm) 46
Detective of the Month

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) As long as you have the city's blessing, Detectives you control can't be blocked. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

Creature
Detective of the Month (mkc) 21
Exit Specialist

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Disguise {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, return another target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Exit Specialist (mkm) 55
Final-Word Phantom

Flash Flying During each opponent's end step, you may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Final-Word Phantom (mkc) 22
Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Creature
Forensic Gadgeteer (mkm) 342
Forensic Researcher

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control. {T}, Collect evidence 3: Tap target creature you don't control. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)

Creature
Forensic Researcher (mkm) 58
Granite Witness

Flying, vigilance Disguise {W/U}{W/U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target creature.

Creature Artifact
Granite Witness (mkm) 206
Jaded Analyst

Defender Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature loses defender and gains vigilance until end of turn.

Creature
Jaded Analyst (mkm) 62
Lavinia, Foil to Conspiracy

Vigilance Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only during an opponent's turn.

Creature
Lavinia, Foil to Conspiracy (clu) 284
Merchant of Truth

Flying Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. Clues you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Creature
Merchant of Truth (mkc) 11
Mistway Spy

Flying Disguise {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, until end of turn, whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, investigate.

Creature
Mistway Spy (mkm) 65
Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Nick Valentine can't be blocked except by artifact creatures. Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature Artifact
Nick Valentine, Private Eye (pip) 35
Novice Inspector

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Novice Inspector (mkm) 29
Perimeter Enforcer

Flying, lifelink Whenever another Detective you control enters and whenever a Detective you control is turned face up, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Perimeter Enforcer (mkm) 31
Piper Wright, Publick Reporter

Whenever Piper Wright deals combat damage to a player, investigate that many times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Piper Wright, Publick Reporter (pip) 36
Private Eye

Other Detectives you control get +1/+1. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, target Detective can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Private Eye (mkm) 223
Sally Sparrow

You may cast creature spells as though they had flash. Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Sally Sparrow (who) 760
Sarah Jane Smith

Whenever you cast a historic spell, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature
Sarah Jane Smith (who) 6
Serene Sleuth

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") At the beginning of combat on your turn, investigate for each goaded creature you control. Then each creature you control is no longer goaded.

Creature
Serene Sleuth (mkc) 325
Steamcore Scholar

Flying, vigilance When this creature enters, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card or a creature card with flying.

Creature
Steamcore Scholar (mkm) 71
Tunnel Surveyor

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Glimmer enchantment creature token.

Creature
Tunnel Surveyor (dsk) 76
Wojek Investigator

Flying, vigilance At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate once for each opponent who has more cards in hand than you. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Wojek Investigator (mkm) 340

Detectives

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (dsc) 240
Magnifying Glass

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Artifact
Magnifying Glass (mkm) 255
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (drc) 79
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (pmei) 2024-7
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (drc) 138
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (pip) 249
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Ramp

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Clue Generators

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Case of the Filched Falcon

When this Case enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") To solve — You control three or more artifacts. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {2}{U}, Sacrifice this Case: Put four +1/+1 counters on target noncreature artifact. It becomes a 0/0 Bird creature with flying in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Case of the Filched Falcon (mkm) 44
Deduce

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Deduce (mkm) 293
Erdwal Illuminator

Flying Whenever you investigate for the first time each turn, investigate an additional time.

Creature
Erdwal Illuminator (mkc) 104
Hard Evidence

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

Sorcery
Hard Evidence (h2r) 5
Officious Interrogation

This spell costs {W}{U} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose any number of target players. Investigate X times, where X is the total number of creatures those players control.

Instant
Officious Interrogation (mkm) 314
Search the Premises

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Search the Premises (mkc) 81

Clue Generators

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Draw

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Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (moc) 220

Draw

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Single-Target Creature Removal

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Burden of Proof

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's a Detective you control. Otherwise, it has base power and toughness 1/1 and can't block Detectives.

Enchantment
Burden of Proof (mkm) 42
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (blc) 147
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (dsc) 106
Unwanted Remake

Destroy target creature. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Unwanted Remake (dsk) 39

Single-Target Creature Removal

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Clue Payoffs

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Armed with Proof

When this enchantment enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Clues you control are Equipment in addition to their other types and have "Equipped creature gets +2/+0" and equip {2}.

Enchantment
Armed with Proof (mkc) 9
Clan Crafter

Commander creatures you own have "{2}, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card."

Enchantment
Clan Crafter (clb) 651
Five Hundred Year Diary

Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} for each Clue you control. {2}, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.

Artifact
Five Hundred Year Diary (who) 42
Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Enchantment
Mechanized Production (pip) 178
Nettlecyst

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Nettlecyst (mkc) 233
Tangletrove Kelp

Ward {2} At the beginning of each combat, other Clues you control become 6/6 Plant creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn. {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Tangletrove Kelp (mkc) 24

Clue Payoffs

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Finisher

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Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way. Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Rise and Shine (mh2) 58

Finisher

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Deck Info

Deck stats

30 pips - 24 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
40 pips - 35 cards
30 mana - 30 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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8 mana - 6 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"A budget deck based around Detectives as a creature type. You have limited options in terms of specific payoffs for Detectives, but the Detectives that do exist form a sub-theme of their own: Clues. Build up a big board full of Clues for huge swings in card advantage or even damage with cards like Rise and Shine or Tangletrove Kelp.\n\nWin Conditions: Swinging in with a huge board of Clues with Rise and Shine or Tangletrove Kelp, Commander Damage with Ezrim pumped up by things like Clan Crafter, Armed with Proof, or Merchant of Truth, overrun your opponent with a bunch of Detectives (probably not the most likely one).\n\nAdds later to improve the deck:\nReflections of Littjara\nKindred Discovery\nVanquisher's Banner\nHerald's Horn\nBanner of Kinship\nFolk Hero\n"}]}
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