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Eliminate the Impossible

Murders at Karlov Manor #54 uncommon
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Eliminate the Impossible

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Live Value $0.11
Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)
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Never reprinted since its original release.

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Rarity
uncommon
Set Origin
Daily Shift
0.00%
EDHREC Rank
#22,807
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Instant
Color Identity Blue
🖋️ Curator's Notes
Investigate. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn. If any of them are suspected, they're no longer suspected. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "2, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

""Half the city had motive. Time to narrow down who also had the means and opportunity.""

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Official Judge Precedents

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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.

There's no limit to the number of creatures that can be suspected simultaneously. Suspecting a new creature doesn't cause other creatures to stop being suspected.

When an effect suspects a creature, it becomes suspected. It gains menace and "This creature can't block" for as long as it's suspected. It stays suspected until it leaves the battlefield or another effect causes it to no longer be suspected.

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.

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.

If a creature is already suspected, suspecting it again won't have any effect.

Being suspected isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a suspected creature, it won't be suspected.

If a suspected creature loses all abilities, it will lose menace and "This creature can't block", but it won't stop being suspected.

Eliminate the Impossible affects only creatures your opponents control at the time it resolves. Creatures they begin to control later in the turn won't get -2/-0 and won't stop being suspected.

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.

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.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 2024-02-09
Artist Reference: Carlos Palma Cruchaga
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil
Promo Status NO
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard legal
modern legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer legal
pauper not_legal
vintage legal
brawl legal
explorer not_legal
penny not_legal
predh not_legal
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