Confirm Suspicions
Instant
Counter target spell.
Investigate three times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #9476
Confirm Suspicions counters a spell and leaves three Clue tokens behind — that's card advantage baked into a hard counter at five mana. The cost is real: five mana is a lot to hold up, and outside of dedicated Clue or artifact-value shells, cheaper counterspells do more work.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Morska, Undersea Sleuth
Morska, Undersea Sleuth turns every Clue sacrifice into card draw, so the three tokens Confirm Suspicions generates aren't just future cards — they're triggers waiting to happen. It's the single highest-synergy home for this card and the main reason its inclusion rate sits above 25%.
Galazeth Prismari
Galazeth Prismari lets you tap artifacts for mana, which means the Clues from Confirm Suspicions pull double duty as ritual fuel before you crack them. The five-mana ask becomes easier to stomach when the tokens help pay for your next spell.
Lonis, Cryptozoologist
Lonis, Cryptozoologist creates Clues whenever you cast your first spell each turn, and Confirm Suspicions stacks three more on top of whatever Lonis already generated. That burst of tokens feeds Lonis's activated ability and pressures opponents' boards at the same time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Confirm Suspicions earns its slot specifically in Clue-matters and artifact-value decks — outside those shells, five-mana counterspells compete against Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, and Swan Song, and they lose. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but never sees play; the format's threat density demands cheaper interaction. Modern and Pioneer are the same story — five mana for a counter is unplayable in any non-casual context. Confirm Suspicions is a Commander card through and through, and even there it's conditional on having a shell that cashes in the Clues.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Confirm Suspicions is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable and will stay there; casual demand from Clue decks keeps it from being worthless, but it will never be a sought-after single.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.