Merchant of Truth

Public decks that run Merchant of Truth

• Calling All Angels - Foundations Commander, led by Giada, Font of Hope
• Deep Clue Sea - Murders at Karlov Manor Commander, led by Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Commanders that run Merchant of Truth most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

• Morska, Undersea Sleuth: 4,951 decks
• Shilgengar, Sire of Famine: 2,134 decks
• Tivit, Seller of Secrets: 1,622 decks
• Teysa, Opulent Oligarch: 1,401 decks
• Inquisitor Greyfax: 1,068 decks
• Sophia, Dogged Detective: 1,057 decks
• Ezrim, Agency Chief: 546 decks
• Rafiq of the Many: 539 decks

Often played with Merchant of Truth

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

• Graf Mole
• Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant
• Armed with Proof
• Case of the Pilfered Proof
• Serene Sleuth
• Bjorna, Nightfall Alchemist
• Confront the Unknown
• Persuasive Interrogators
• Innocuous Researcher
• Ulvenwald Mysteries

Rulings

• 2024-02-02: 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.
• 2024-02-02: If you control multiple Merchants of Truth, Clues you control will have multiple instances of exalted.
• 2024-02-02: 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.
• 2024-02-02: 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.
• 2024-02-02: 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.
• 2024-02-02: A creature attacks alone if it’s the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step (including creatures controlled by your teammates, if applicable). For example, exalted won’t trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat. Similarly, creatures that enter the battlefield attacking later in combat won’t affect exalted abilities that have already triggered or resolved.
• 2024-02-02: If Merchant of Truth dies at the same time as one or more other nontoken creatures you control, its second ability will trigger for each of those creatures.
• 2024-02-02: 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.