Investigate

Investigate
Keyword Action
Introduced	Shadows over Innistrad
Last used	Shadows over Innistrad
Reminder Text	Investigate (Put a colorless Clue artifact token onto the battlefield with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Statistics	25 cards 40% 28% 24% 8%
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keyword:"Investigate"

Investigate is a keyword action introduced in Shadows over Innistrad.

Description

To investigate, you put a Clue token onto the battlefield. Clues are colorless artifacts, which have the ability ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."

Investigate sometimes is triggered when specific things happen. For example, you get to investigate whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control or a nontoken creature you control dies. There is also a number of cards that trigger when a Clue is sacrificed. It makes the decision of when to sacrifice a Clue more interesting. You don't always do it as soon as possible.

Rules

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 701.36. Investigate
  • 701.36a “Investigate” means “Create a Clue token.” See rule 111.10f.

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

Investigate

A keyword action that creates a Clue artifact token. See rule 701.36, “Investigate.”

Clue

Investigate does create Clue Artifact tokens:

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Clue	Colorless	Artifact — Clue		, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.	Academy Manufactor Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth Angelic Sleuth Antique Collector Auspicious Arrival Bearer of Overwhelming Truths Blink Briarbridge Patrol Briarbridge Tracker Bygone Bishop Byway Courier Case of the Filched Falcon Case of the Pilfered Proof Confirm Suspicions Confront the Unknown Declaration in Stone Deduce Dennick, Pious Apparition Dining Room Disorder in the Court Drag the Canal Drownyard Explorers Duggan, Private Detective Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth Erdwal Illuminator Ethereal Investigator Expose Evil Fae Offering Fateful Absence Fleeting Memories Floodhound Follow Him Foul Play The Fugitive Doctor Fugitive of the Judoon Funnel-Web Recluse Gleaming Geardrake Gone Missing Hard Evidence Havengul Laboratory Heaven Sent Hold for Questioning Homicide Investigator Hotshot Investigators Humble the Brute Innocent Bystander Inquisitor Eisenhorn Inquisitor Greyfax Jace's Scrutiny Lavinia, Foil to Conspiracy Library Lonis, Cryptozoologist Loxodon Eavesdropper Madame Vastra Magnifying Glass Martha Jones Meddling Youths Mistway Spy Morska, Undersea Sleuth Nick Valentine, Private Eye Novice Inspector No Witnesses Ongoing Investigation Osgood, Operation Double Out Cold Overencumbered Persuasive Interrogators Piper Wright, Publick Reporter Press for Answers The Rani Root Out Rory Williams Sally Sparrow Sarah Jane Smith Search the Premises Secrets of the Key The Seventh Doctor Sharp-Eyed Rookie Sophina, Spearsage Deserter Survive the Night Tail the Suspect Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student Tamiyo's Journal Teysa, Opulent Oligarch The Third Doctor They Went This Way Thijarian Witness Thorough Investigation Thraben Inspector Tireless Tracker Tivit, Seller of Secrets Trail of Evidence Transmutation Font Ulvenwald Mysteries Undercover Crocodelf Wavesifter Weirding Wood Wernog, Rider's Chaplain Wojek Investigator