Confront the Unknown
- Mana cost
- {G}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad #198 (common)
- Price
- $0.09 USD
Investigate, then target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Clue you control. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Confront the Unknown has 2 printings, first in Shadows over Innistrad (2016). EDHREC ranks it #14,013 among Commander cards. It appears most in Lonis, Cryptozoologist decks (1,403 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Confront the Unknown most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Lonis, Cryptozoologist: 1,403 decks
- Morska, Undersea Sleuth: 1,070 decks
- Sophia, Dogged Detective: 748 decks
- Lonis, Genetics Expert: 160 decks
- Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy // Tail the Suspect: 86 decks
- Duggan, Private Detective: 65 decks
- Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant: 4 decks
- The Fugitive Doctor: 3 decks
Often played with Confront the Unknown
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can't cast a spell without choosing legal targets. If all of those targets become illegal, the spell doesn't resolve and you won't investigate.
- : 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.
- : No player may take any action in between the two steps of Confront the Unknown, so the target creature will get at least +1/+1.
- : 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.
- : 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.