Detective's Satchel
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
When this artifact enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
T: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Activate only if you've sacrificed an artifact this turn.
Combos with Detective's Satchel
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Mind Over Matter Fateful Discovery Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact tokens
- Dross Scorpion Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite colorless mana
- Chrome Dome Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite copies of artifacts you control with haste
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-02-02
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.
- 2024-02-02
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.
- 2024-02-02
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.
- 2024-02-02
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.
- 2024-02-02
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Detective's Satchel, whatever its commander.
Detective's Satchel price history
The Murders at Karlov Manor #196 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.26 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.25 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.23 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.23 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.22 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.22 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.22 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.22 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.22 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.22 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.21 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.21 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.21 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.21 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.22 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.22 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Detective's Satchel
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.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.26
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's Satchel. 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.
