Expose Evil
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #SOI-19
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · 0.26 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- White
Card text
Tap up to two target creatures. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- 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
- Jama Jurabaev
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
"Only the pure stand tall in the light." —Sigarda
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 Expose Evil has at least one target and all of those targets become illegal, the spell doesn't resolve and you won't investigate.
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.
You can cast Expose Evil with no targets if you only want to investigate.
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.
