Foreboding Steamboat

Foreboding Steamboat card image

Foreboding Steamboat: Artifact - Vehicle, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Mana value
5
Type
Artifact - Vehicle
Colour identity
Black (B)
Power / toughness
5/7
Rarity
Rare
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
Released
2024-02-09
Collector number
28
Artist
Josu Solano
Commander rank
16,015 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Crew, Investigate

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About Foreboding Steamboat

Foreboding Steamboat is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black artifact from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 28 in that set, with art by Josu Solano. It costs {3}{B}{B} (three generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its power and toughness are 5/7. Its colour identity is black. 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 $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

When this Vehicle enters, each player chooses two nontoken, non-Vehicle creatures they control. Exile them until this Vehicle leaves the battlefield.

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, put a card exiled with it into its owner's graveyard. If you do, investigate.

Crew 2

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-11).

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

Format legality

Legality of Foreboding Steamboat by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Foreboding Steamboat

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

PrintingRarityYear
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #338Rare2024

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Foreboding Steamboat, newest first.

  • 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.
  • If Foreboding Steamboat leaves the battlefield before its first triggered ability resolves, the chosen creatures won't be exiled at all.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Starting with the player whose turn it is, each player in turn order chooses two nontoken, non-Vehicle creatures they control, then all the creatures chosen by all players are exiled at the same time. Players get to know the choices made by players who chose before them.

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