Magnifying Glass
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
T: Add .
4, T: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Combos with Magnifying Glass
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.
- Academy Manufactor Clock of Omens Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite Food tokens
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite Treasure tokens
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2016-04-08
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.
- 2016-04-08
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.
- 2016-04-08
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Magnifying Glass, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosh, Iron Golem | 1 | 3 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 1 deck
Magnifying Glass price history
The Murders at Karlov Manor #255 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.17 | $0.28 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.19 | $0.28 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.28 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.28 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.28 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.28 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.28 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.26 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Magnifying Glass
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.17
- Foil
- $0.28
- Normal
- $0.16
- Normal
- $0.24
- Foil
- $0.31
Commander 2018
- Normal
- $0.33
Shadows over Innistrad
- Normal
- $0.11
- Foil
- $0.21
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Magnifying Glass. 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.
