Callous Inspector
Creature — Human Soldier
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to you. Create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #17042
Callous Inspector enters as a 1/2 and grows itself — each time an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, it picks up a +1/+1 counter and draws you a card. That trigger fires off cascade, flashback, suspend, rebound, and every other cast-from-elsewhere effect, making it a surprisingly dense value engine for a two-mana creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Callous Inspector earns its slot in any deck that wants to punish storm, cascade, or graveyard-cast strategies — the trigger fires once per qualifying cast, so a single opponent resolving a cascade chain can net you two or three cards. Outside Commander, the card sees essentially no competitive play; Standard and Pioneer lack the density of non-hand casts to make it consistent, and Modern and Legacy have far more efficient two-drops. Pauper is its most realistic non-Commander home, where flashback and madness spells show up often enough to generate occasional value, but even there Callous Inspector is a fringe consideration rather than a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Callous Inspector is deep bulk — easy to pick up in trade binders or as a throw-in. Bulk rares with narrow triggers rarely climb in price without a specific combo breakout, so treat this as a cheap role-player you grab when building the right deck, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.