Merchant of Truth
Merchant of Truth: Creature - Angel Detective, Foundations Commander. Flying. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}{W}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Creature - Angel Detective
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 2/5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Foundations Commander (FDC)
- Released
- 2026-10-02
- Collector number
- 39
- Artist
- Carissa Susilo
- Commander rank
- 6,506 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying, Investigate
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About Merchant of Truth
Merchant of Truth is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white creature from Foundations Commander (FDC), released in October 2026. It is collector number 39 in that set, with art by Carissa Susilo. It costs {2}{W}{W} (two generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 2/5 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (2024) to Foundations Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Flying
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate.
Clues you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.31 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Merchant of Truth by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Merchant of Truth
Merchant of Truth has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #11 | Rare | 2024 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #322 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Merchant of Truth, newest first.
- 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.
- If you control multiple Merchants of Truth, Clues you control will have multiple instances of exalted.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A creature attacks alone if it’s the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step (including creatures controlled by your teammates, if applicable). For example, exalted won’t trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat. Similarly, creatures that enter the battlefield attacking later in combat won’t affect exalted abilities that have already triggered or resolved.
- If Merchant of Truth dies at the same time as one or more other nontoken creatures you control, its second ability will trigger for each of those creatures.
- 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.
Similar cards
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In these precons
Merchant of Truth is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.