Cunning Maneuver card art

Cunning Maneuver

Instant MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Target creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

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

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-10-02

    Creating a Clue token this way isn't the same thing as investigating. Notably, an ability that triggers whenever you investigate won't trigger because of creating a Clue token this way.

  • 2025-10-02

    Clue tokens are artifact tokens with "2, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card."

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cunning Maneuver, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Krenko, Mob Boss 1 0 —
Photon, Mighty Marvel 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 2 decks

Every version of Cunning Maneuver

1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cunning Maneuver. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.