Forensic Gadgeteer Price
4 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2024
Forensic Gadgeteer has been printed 4 times across 2 sets, first in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #57p at $2.01, while the most expensive is Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #57s at $7.28 — about 4× more. The median across 4 priced printings is $2.57. Reprint risk: LOW — Reprinted 4x historically, most recently in 2024 -- no dedicated reprint sets or recent activity.
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Every Forensic Gadgeteer Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #57p (R) Cheapest | 2024 | $2.01 | $2.25 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor #342 (R) | 2024 | $2.08 | $1.50 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor #57 (R) | 2024 | $3.06 | $1.00 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #57s (R) Foil | 2024 | $7.28 | $3.95 foil |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost
less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 4 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
7 PrecedentsForensic Gadgeteer's last ability affects only abilities of artifacts you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of artifact cards that work in other zones, such as cycling, won't be reduced.
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.
Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Forensic Gadgeteer.
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.
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.
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.
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.