Nick Valentine, Private Eye card art

Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Legendary Artifact Creature — Synth Detective MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Nick Valentine can't be blocked except by artifact creatures.

Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Combos with Nick Valentine, Private Eye

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.

  • March of the Machines Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Displaced Dinosaurs Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Halsin, Emerald Archdruid Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Stridehangar Automaton Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2024-03-08

    Once Nick Valentine has been blocked, making the blocking creature stop being an artifact won't cause Nick Valentine to become unblocked.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Nick Valentine, Private Eye, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
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
Dr. Madison Li 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Nick Valentine, Private Eye

4 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nick Valentine, Private Eye. 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.