Detective of the Month
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
As long as you have the city's blessing, Detectives you control can't be blocked.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-02-02
Gaining the city’s blessing after a Detective you control has become blocked won’t cause that Detective to become unblocked.
- 2024-02-02
If you cast a spell with ascend, you don't get the city’s blessing until it resolves. Players may respond to that spell by trying to change whether you get the city’s blessing.
- 2024-02-02
Ascend on a permanent isn’t a triggered ability and doesn’t use the stack. Players can respond to a spell that will give you your tenth permanent, but they can’t respond to you getting the city’s blessing once you control that tenth permanent. This means that if your tenth permanent is a land you play, players can’t respond before you get the city’s blessing.
- 2024-02-02
A permanent is any object on the battlefield, including tokens and lands. Spells and emblems aren’t permanents.
- 2024-02-02
Once you have the city’s blessing, you have it for the rest of the game, even if you lose control of some or all your permanents. The city’s blessing isn’t a permanent itself and can’t be removed by any effect.
- 2024-02-02
If your tenth permanent enters the battlefield and then a permanent leaves the battlefield immediately afterwards (most likely due to the “legend rule” or due to being a creature with 0 toughness), you get the city’s blessing before it leaves the battlefield.
- 2024-02-02
If you control ten permanents but don’t control a permanent or resolving spell with ascend, you don’t get the city’s blessing. For example, if you control ten permanents, lose control of two, then cast Detective of the Month, you won’t have the city’s blessing.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Detective of the Month, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morska, Undersea Sleuth | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Detective of the Month
2 printings, 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Normal
- $0.37
Extended Art
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Normal
- $0.43
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Detective of the Month — a name search across every version, for 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.
