Tangletrove Kelp
Tangletrove Kelp: Artifact Creature - Clue Plant, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 7
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Clue Plant
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 6/6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 24
- Artist
- Erikas Perl
- Commander rank
- 5,549 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Ward
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About Tangletrove Kelp
Tangletrove Kelp is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue artifact creature from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 24 in that set, with art by Erikas Perl. It costs {5}{U}{U} (five generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. It is a 6/6 creature. Its colour identity is blue. 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 $0.56 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Ward {2}
At the beginning of each combat, other Clues you control become 6/6 Plant creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Even experienced detectives can be strung along by planted evidence.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.56 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Tangletrove Kelp 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 Tangletrove Kelp
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #334 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Tangletrove Kelp, newest first.
- Clues you control will keep any abilities they previously had while they’re creatures.
- 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.
- If a Clue you control is already a creature when Tangletrove Kelp’s second ability resolves, Tangletrove Kelp’s second ability will overwrite any previous effects that set that creature’s power and toughness to specific numbers. Effects that otherwise modify its power and toughness will still apply no matter when they took effect. The same is true for +1/+1 counters.
- 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.
- 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 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.
Similar cards
Other artifact creature cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Tangletrove Kelp is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.