Follow the Bodies

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Follow the Bodies: Sorcery, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. Gravestorm. Investigate. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{U}
Mana value
3
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
Released
2024-02-09
Collector number
23
Artist
Alfven Ato
Commander rank
12,404 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Gravestorm, Investigate

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About Follow the Bodies

Follow the Bodies is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue sorcery from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 23 in that set, with art by Alfven Ato. It costs {2}{U} (two generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Murders at Karlov Manor Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.30 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.)

Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"The culprit doesn't seem to care about covering their tracks. Let's hope that's a good thing." -Morska

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.30 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Follow the Bodies by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Follow the Bodies

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #333Rare2024

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Follow the Bodies, newest first.

  • The copies of Follow the Bodies created by its gravestorm ability are created on the stack, so they're not cast and won't cause abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell to trigger.
  • Gravestorm counts all permanents put into graveyards from the battlefield this turn. It doesn't matter who controlled those permanents, who owns them, or whether or not they were tokens.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack.

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