Ongoing Investigation
Ongoing Investigation: Enchantment, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 114
- Artist
- Bud Cook
- Commander rank
- 9,967 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Investigate
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About Ongoing Investigation
Ongoing Investigation is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue and green enchantment from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 114 in that set, with art by Bud Cook. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Shadows over Innistrad (2016) to Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.22 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
{1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Investigate. You gain 2 life.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.22 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ongoing Investigation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Ongoing Investigation
Ongoing Investigation has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR) #84 | Uncommon | 2023 |
| Shadows over Innistrad (SOI) #77 | Uncommon | 2016 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Ongoing Investigation, newest first.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, if you control more than one creature that can attack, you may have them attack different opponents so that Ongoing Investigation's first ability triggers twice.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a blue and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Ongoing Investigation is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.