Bygone Bishop
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Spirit Cleric
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad #8 (rare)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
Flying
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Bygone Bishop has 5 printings, first in Shadows over Innistrad (2016). EDHREC ranks it #7,686 among Commander cards. It appears most in Millicent, Restless Revenant decks (3,629 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Bygone Bishop
- Party Time - Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate, led by Nalia de'Arnise
- Spirit Squadron - Crimson Vow Commander, led by Millicent, Restless Revenant
Commanders that run Bygone Bishop most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Millicent, Restless Revenant: 3,629 decks
- Nalia de'Arnise: 908 decks
- God-Eternal Oketra: 816 decks
- Teysa, Opulent Oligarch: 733 decks
- Sephara, Sky's Blade: 563 decks
- King of the Oathbreakers: 541 decks
- Minwu, White Mage: 375 decks
- Momo, Friendly Flier: 217 decks
Often played with Bygone Bishop
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.
- : Casting a spell for an alternative cost, such as a madness cost, doesn't change its mana value. For example, casting Twins of Maurer Estate (a card with mana cost {4}{B} and madness cost {2}{B}) for its madness cost will not cause Bygone Bishop's ability to trigger.
- : 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.