Officious Interrogation

Card text

This spell costs {W}{U} more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Choose any number of target players. Investigate X times, where X is the total number of creatures those players control.

No guest was permitted to leave before being questioned in an Azorius verity circle.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.28 (as of 2026-11-12).

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Format legality

Legality of Officious Interrogation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Officious Interrogation

Officious Interrogation has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Officious Interrogation, newest first.

• 2024-02-02 Any target players that are no longer legal targets by the time Officious Interrogation resolves won't have their creatures counted when determining how many tokens you create.
• 2024-02-02 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 If a spell or ability allows you to cast Officious Interrogation without paying its mana cost, you must still pay the additional cost for any targets beyond the first.
• 2024-02-02 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 If this spell is copied and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. The player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, the player can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
• 2024-02-02 Officious Interrogation's mana value doesn't change no matter how many targets it has.
• 2024-02-02 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 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.

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