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Clues Abound
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Est deck cost: $176.11
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Commander

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Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, investigate. {T}, Sacrifice X Clues: Target opponent reveals the top X cards of their library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield under your control. That player puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Lonis, Cryptozoologist (mh2) 370

Commander

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Find

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Confront the Unknown

Investigate, then target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Clue you control. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Confront the Unknown (soi) 198
Ongoing Investigation

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Investigate. You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Ongoing Investigation (soi) 77
Root Out

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

Sorcery
Root Out (plst) SOI-224
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (plst) SOI-265
Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, 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 this creature.

Creature
Tireless Tracker (plst) SOI-233
Trail of Evidence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Trail of Evidence (plst) SOI-93

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Ramp

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Arbor Elf

{T}: Untap target Forest.

Creature
Arbor Elf (plst) A25-160
Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (c21) 212
Dryad Arbor

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Creature Land
Dryad Arbor (tsr) 277
Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Artifact
Inspiring Statuary (aer) 160
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (plst) DDO-52
Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Murkfiend Liege (cmr) 448
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with lesser mana value. If you don't cast it, put it into your hand.

Creature
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter (c20) 229
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c21) 263
Weirding Wood

Enchant land When this Aura enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Enchantment
Weirding Wood (soi) 240
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (khc) 80

Ramp

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Artifact token synergy

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Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Creature
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (c21) 9
Esix, Fractal Bloom

Flying The first time you would create one or more tokens during each of your turns, you may instead choose a creature other than Esix and create that many tokens that are copies of that creature.

Creature
Esix, Fractal Bloom (c21) 10
Fae Offering

At the beginning of each end step, if you've cast both a creature spell and a noncreature spell this turn, create a Clue token, a Food token, and a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Fae Offering (mh2) 158
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 (mh2) 231
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

Artifact token synergy

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c21) 284
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (afr) 281
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (afr) 269
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (c18) 278
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (afc) 260
Tanglepool Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Tanglepool Bridge (mh2) 257
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (c21) 324
Vineglimmer Snarl

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

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (pstx) 274p
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (c21) 409

Land

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Removal/Interaction

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Apex Altisaur

When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Apex Altisaur (c19) 31
Blue Sun's Twilight

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Sorcery
Blue Sun's Twilight (one) 43
Confirm Suspicions

Counter target spell. Investigate three times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Confirm Suspicions (soi) 53
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
Depths of Desire

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Depths of Desire (xln) 52
Frilled Mystic

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

Creature
Frilled Mystic (rna) 174
Hornswoggle

Counter target creature spell. You create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Hornswoggle (rix) 39
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (mh2) 48
Mystic Snake

Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell.

Creature
Mystic Snake (a25) 208
Oversimplify

Exile all creatures. Each player creates a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and puts a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total power of creatures they controlled that were exiled this way.

Sorcery
Oversimplify (c21) 72
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
Press for Answers

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Press for Answers (soi) 80
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (tsr) 366

Removal/Interaction

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Clue Synergy

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Briarbridge Patrol

Whenever this creature deals damage to one or more creatures, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") At the beginning of each end step, if you sacrificed three or more Clues this turn, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Briarbridge Patrol (soi) 195
Daring Sleuth

Creature
Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths (soi) 54Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths (soi) 54
Displace

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Instant
Displace (plst) EMN-55
Erdwal Illuminator

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

Creature
Erdwal Illuminator (soi) 60
Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Ghostly Flicker (khc) 39
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 (mh2) 46
Parcel Myr

{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Parcel Myr (mh2) 54
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. {3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (thb) 71
Ulvenwald Mysteries

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Enchantment
Ulvenwald Mysteries (plst) SOI-236
Wavesifter

Flying When this creature enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Evoke {G}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Wavesifter (mh2) 217

Clue Synergy

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Non-clue Card Draw

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Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (rna) 130
Investigator's Journal

This artifact enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls. {2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from this artifact: Draw a card. {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Investigator's Journal (vow) 258
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (afc) 87
Shimmer Dragon

Flying As long as you control four or more artifacts, this creature has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Shimmer Dragon (eld) 317

Non-clue Card Draw

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Treasure/Food

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Giant Opportunity

You may sacrifice two Foods. If you do, create a 7/7 green Giant creature token. Otherwise, create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
Giant Opportunity (eld) 159
Tempting Contract

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent may create a Treasure token. For each opponent who does, you create a Treasure token.

Artifact
Tempting Contract (c21) 405
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (mh2) 180

Treasure/Food

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ETB

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Dream Stalker

When this creature enters, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Dream Stalker (tsr) 63
Shrieking Drake

Flying When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Shrieking Drake (vis) 43

ETB

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Protection

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Argivian Restoration

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Argivian Restoration (2xm) 42
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (cmr) 425
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (khc) 105

Protection

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Tutors

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Kuldotha Forgemaster

{T}, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Kuldotha Forgemaster (2xm) 266
Trophy Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trophy Mage (ddu) 42

Tutors

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Maybeboard

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Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Creature Artifact
Academy Manufactor (mh2) 219
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (c21) 186
Feasting Troll King

Vigilance, trample When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice three Foods: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Feasting Troll King (eld) 368
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 188
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (c21) 246
Jace's Scrutiny

Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Jace's Scrutiny (soi) 70
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 (aer) 38
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (tsr) 399
Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Parallel Lives (isd) 199
Second Harvest

For each token you control, create a token that's a copy of that permanent.

Instant
Second Harvest (c19) 178
Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Spell Swindle (plst) XLN-82
Temur Sabertooth

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Temur Sabertooth (c17) 159
Tunnel Vision

Choose a card name. Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until a card with that name is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into their graveyard and puts the card with the chosen name on top of their library. Otherwise, the player shuffles.

Sorcery
Tunnel Vision (rav) 72
Whirler Rogue

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying. Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Whirler Rogue (khc) 45

Maybeboard

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{"ops":[{"insert":"I loved the flavor and uniqueness of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lonis, Cryptozoologist"}},{"insert":" as soon as I saw it. Stealing beaters and threats from each opponent is excellent fun for multiplayer, and Clues are useful even without his ability for card draw or for \"artifacts matter\" strategies. To produce as many Clue tokens as possible I put in as many creatures with \"investigate\" as I could find, as each will provide an extra Clue when Lonis is on the field. Having token doublers like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Adrix and Nev, Twincasters"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Parallel Lives"}},{"insert":" will also help generate as many clue tokens as possible. Another new MH2 card, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Academy Manufactor"}},{"insert":", adds a huge amount of value to any Investigate triggers and also allows you to slot in some good Food- or Treasure-related cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Feasting Troll King"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hullbreacher"}},{"insert":" to produce even more Clue tokens. I included tutors like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kuldotha Forgemaster"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Trophy Mage"}},{"insert":" to help make sure you can bring out Academy Manufacturer, because improving your mana, card draw, life total, and Clue synergies all in one is too good to not have on the field as often as possible. I put in fewer explicitly \"card draw\" or \"ramp\" cards in for that reason, although some that have good synergies with Clues or Lonis made the cut: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kiora's Follower"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shimmer Dragon"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Idol of Oblivion"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Secrets of the Golden City"}},{"insert":" seemed like fun additions.\n\nSome possible ways to win with this deck:\n-Beat opponents with their own permanents after stealing them with Lonis (most fun in my opinion)\n-Enchant one of your many Clue, Treasure, or Food tokens with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mechanized Production"}},{"insert":"\n-Overload "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rise and Shine"}},{"insert":" to smash opponents with each of your newly sentient Clue, Treasure, and Food tokens\n-Mill out specific opponents with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fleeting Memories"}},{"insert":" \n-Pump up a big beater with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tireless Tracker"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Confront the Unknown"}},{"insert":" \n-Use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Esix, Fractal Bloom"}},{"insert":" to turn your new artifact tokens into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shimmer Dragon"}},{"insert":"s, copies of your opponents creatures, or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Academy Manufactor"}},{"insert":" for insane amounts of tokens (\"n\" Manufacturers will produce [3^n] tokens for each Clue, Treasure, or Food you make)\n"}]}
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