Lonis, Cryptozoologist card art

Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Legendary Creature — Snake Elf Scout MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, investigate.

T, Sacrifice X Clues: Target opponent reveals the top X cards of their library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield under your control. That player puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Combos with Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Shrieking Drake Urza, Lord High Artificer Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite tapped Clue tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Shrieking Drake Academy Manufactor Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Academy Manufactor Skullwinder Cloudshift Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Academy Manufactor Skullwinder Essence Flux Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Academy Manufactor Salvager of Secrets Cloudshift Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Academy Manufactor Salvager of Secrets Essence Flux Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Jaheira, Friend of the Forest Deadeye Navigator Academy Manufactor Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite blinking
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite green mana
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Deadeye Navigator Academy Manufactor Parallel Lives Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite blinking
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-06-18

    You can't sacrifice a Clue to activate its own ability and also to activate the ability of Lonis, Cryptozoologist.

  • 2021-06-18

    The token is named Clue Token and has the artifact subtype Clue. Clue isn't a creature type.

  • 2021-06-18

    The tokens are normal artifacts. For example, one can be sacrificed to activate the ability of Breya's Apprentice and one can be the target of Break Ties.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Lonis, Cryptozoologist, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Morska, Undersea Sleuth 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Bant 1 deck

Every version of Lonis, Cryptozoologist

5 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lonis, Cryptozoologist — 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.