Surveillance Monitor
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Murders at Karlov ManorMKM · #73
- Card type
- Creature — Vedalken Detective
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.06 € · ★ 0.02 € · 0.10 $ · ★ 0.10 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
When this creature enters, you may collect evidence 4. (Exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater from your graveyard.) Whenever you collect evidence, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- 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
- Scott Murphy
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-02-09
Flavour text
Thopters don't take breaks, and neither does he.
Rulings
If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.
Surveillance Monitor's last ability triggers whenever you collect evidence for any reason, not just when you collect evidence with its first ability.