Dogged Detective
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Human Rogue
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- New Capenna Commander #35 (rare)
- Price
- $0.40 USD
When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Dogged Detective has 5 printings, first in New Capenna Commander (2022). EDHREC ranks it #7,293 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (6,273 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Dogged Detective
- Maestros Massacre - New Capenna Commander, led by Anhelo, the Painter
- Revenant Recon - Murders at Karlov Manor Commander, led by Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Commanders that run Dogged Detective most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 6,273 decks
- Anhelo, the Painter: 2,210 decks
- Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth: 294 decks
- Syrix, Carrier of the Flame: 250 decks
- Spider-Man Noir: 247 decks
- Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter: 223 decks
- Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent: 219 decks
- Sidisi, Regent of the Mire: 150 decks
Often played with Dogged Detective
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Dogged Detective doesn't need to be in the graveyard when the first card is drawn for its last ability to trigger. As long as it is in the graveyard when an opponent draws their second card in a turn, it will trigger.
- : When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.