Deadly Cover-Up
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor #399 (rare)
- Price
- $1.08 USD
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.
Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
Deadly Cover-Up has 4 printings, first in Murders at Karlov Manor (2024). EDHREC ranks it #10,803 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gonti, Lord of Luxury decks (63 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Deadly Cover-Up most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gonti, Lord of Luxury: 63 decks
- Izoni, Center of the Web: 34 decks
- Kotose, the Silent Spider: 26 decks
- Myojin of Grim Betrayal: 5 decks
- Vash, Freelance Archaeologist: 2 decks
- Minotaur, Roxxon CEO: 1 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel: 1 decks
Often played with Deadly Cover-Up
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
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.
- : Unlike many other effects of this kind, Deadly Cover-Up allows its controller to exile a basic land.
- : 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.