Carnage Interpreter
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ravnica: Clue EditionCLU · #26
- Card type
- Creature — Devil Detective
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 2.38 € · 2.23 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Black Red
Card text
When this creature enters, discard your hand, then investigate four times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, this creature gets +2/+2 and has menace.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Justine Cruz
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-02-23
Rulings
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.
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.
Once Carnage Interpreter has been blocked, causing it to gain menace by removing cards from your hand won't cause it to stop being blocked.
Some abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Clue". Those abilities trigger whenever you sacrifice a Clue for any reason, not just to activate a Clue's activated ability.
Some spells and abilities that investigate may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Clue tokens.
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.