Drag the Canal
- Mana cost
- {U}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #199p (rare)
- Price
- $0.30 USD
Create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token. If a creature died this turn, you gain 2 life, surveil 2, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Drag the Canal has 4 printings, first in Murders at Karlov Manor (2024). EDHREC ranks it #18,182 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (689 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Drag the Canal most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 689 decks
- Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth: 345 decks
- Lazav, Wearer of Faces: 296 decks
- Inquisitor Greyfax: 213 decks
- Inquisitor Eisenhorn: 83 decks
Often played with Drag the Canal
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.