Innocuous Researcher

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Innocuous Researcher: Creature - Centaur Detective, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}{G}
Mana value
4
Type
Creature - Centaur Detective
Colour identity
Green (G)
Power / toughness
3/4
Rarity
Rare
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
Released
2024-02-09
Collector number
38
Artist
Simon Dominic
Commander rank
13,116 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Investigate, Parley

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About Innocuous Researcher

Innocuous Researcher is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green creature from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 38 in that set, with art by Simon Dominic. It costs {3}{G} (three generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/4 creature. Its colour identity is green. 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 2026-11-12).

Card text

Parley - Whenever this creature attacks, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you investigate. Then each player draws a card.

At the beginning of your end step, you may untap all lands you control. If you do, you can't cast spells until your next turn.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (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 Innocuous Researcher by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Innocuous Researcher

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

PrintingRarityYear
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #348Rare2024

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Innocuous Researcher, newest first.

  • 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.
  • 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 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 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.
  • Except in some very unusual cases, the card each player reveals is the one they’ll draw.
  • There’s no window for you to cast spells after untapping all lands you control but before the “you can’t cast spells” portion of Innocuous Researcher’s last ability takes effect. Once that ability resolves, it doesn’t matter whether Innocuous Researcher stays on the battlefield; you’ll still be unable to cast spells until your next turn begins.
  • 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.

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