Cold Case Cracker
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Spirit Detective
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 3
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor #46 (common)
- Price
- $0.20 USD
Flying
When this creature dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Cold Case Cracker has 1 printing, first in Murders at Karlov Manor (2024). EDHREC ranks it #23,267 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ezrim, Agency Chief decks (111 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Cold Case Cracker most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ezrim, Agency Chief: 111 decks
- Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth: 108 decks
- Martha Jones: 3 decks
- The Seventh Doctor: 2 decks
- Timin, Youthful Geist: 1 decks
- Sam Kirk, Xenoanthropologist: 1 decks
- Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
- Nyssa of Traken
Often played with Cold Case Cracker
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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'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.
- : 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.