Card

Forensic Gadgeteer

Mana cost {2}{U}

Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective 2/3

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Part of 93 known combos, one of them two-card. 7 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · MKM · #57
Cheapest printing
€1.22
EDHREC salt
0.30
Color identity
Blue
Keywords
Investigate

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Basalt Monolith
  • B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Basalt Monolith
  • B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Basalt Monolith
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • Two-card combo with Basalt Monolith (early with Basalt Monolith)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

93 known combos, one of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    Forensic Gadgeteer's last ability affects only abilities of artifacts you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of artifact cards that work in other zones, such as cycling, won't be reduced.
  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Forensic Gadgeteer.
  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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