Jace's Scrutiny
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad #70 (common)
- Price
- $0.12 USD
Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Jace's Scrutiny has 3 printings, first in Shadows over Innistrad (2016). EDHREC ranks it #21,892 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound decks (573 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Jace's Scrutiny most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound: 573 decks
- Hargilde, Kindly Runechanter: 3 decks
- Martha Jones: 2 decks
- Glacian, Powerstone Engineer: 1 decks
- Nyssa of Traken: 1 decks
Often played with Jace's Scrutiny
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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 cast a spell without choosing legal targets. If all of those targets become illegal, the spell doesn't resolve and you won't investigate.
- : 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.