A murder mystery you play with Magic cards
Ravnica: Clue Edition is a boxed game rather than a set you draft, released two weeks after Murders at Karlov Manor and set on the same plane during the same investigation. It is Magic crossed with Clue, which makes it a Universes Beyond product built around a board game rather than a franchise.
The format is what you are buying. Four players play a free-for-all Magic game with two ways to win: gather evidence by connecting with combat damage, then use what you have learned to name the contents of the sealed case file, or simply be the last suspect standing. The second is ordinary Commander-style politics; the first is deduction, and it is why the box exists.
Thirty of the cards are new, twenty rares and ten uncommons, and all of them are eternal-legal. Each pack in the box carries one of each, which is the part that made the product interesting to people who never intended to play the murder-mystery game at all.
Where You Can Play It
Clue Edition splits into two halves with different answers. The thirty new cards were printed for the eternal formats; everything else in the box is a reprint.
The rest of the box is reprints, and a reprint doesn't change legality: each card is legal exactly where it already was.
Standard was never in play for this set, so no rotation has ever touched it. Nothing here leaves Modern, Legacy, Vintage or Commander either. Commons from any set are Pauper-legal; that isn't listed per set here.
Limited
Not a draft format, so there is nothing to read signals in. What there is instead is a second win condition layered onto an ordinary multiplayer game, and knowing how it resolves is most of playing it well.
Gather evidence
The deduction half
Connecting with combat damage lets you look at cards that narrow down what is in the sealed case file. Attacking is therefore worth something even when it does not threaten to kill anybody, which is not how a normal multiplayer game works.
Make the accusation
The first way to win
Once you think you know the contents of the case file, you name them. Getting it right wins on the spot, which means the game can end long before anybody's life total is in danger.
Last suspect standing
The second way to win
The ordinary route: be the only player left. It keeps the box playable as a straightforward free-for-all for anybody who does not want the deduction layer.
FAQ
Two ways. Gather evidence by connecting with combat damage, work out what is inside the sealed case file and name it correctly, or simply be the last player standing. The first can end the game long before anybody is close to dying.
Yes. The thirty new cards, twenty rares and ten uncommons, are eternal-legal, which means Commander, Legacy and Vintage. They are not Standard-, Pioneer- or Modern-legal. The rest of the box is reprints, and a reprint does not change a card's legality.
Enough to play the murder-mystery game out of the box: packs containing one new rare and one new uncommon each, the case file envelope, and the components the deduction half needs.
No. They are separate products two weeks apart on the same plane during the same investigation. Karlov Manor is the Standard-legal booster set you draft; Clue Edition is a boxed game with its own format and its own thirty eternal-legal cards.
No. It is a boxed game rather than a booster product, so there is no Limited format and no draft archetypes.
All card names, art, and mechanics belong to Wizards of the Coast. Ravnica: Clue Edition released on Feb 23, 2024; details reflect the set as published. Sources: Wizards of the Coast set pages and release notes, Draftsim, Untapped.gg.
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