Ongoing Investigation
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Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
{1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Investigate. You gain 2 life.
What it does
Tagged as Card draw · Lifegain — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, if you control more than one creature that can attack, you may have them attack different opponents so that Ongoing Investigation's first ability triggers twice. (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. (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)
- 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)
Printings & prices
Every set Ongoing Investigation has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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