Conspiracy Unraveler
Creature — Sphinx Detective
Flying
You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14029
Conspiracy Unraveler lands as a 6/6 with ward 2 and immediately reloads your hand by drawing cards equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard — in a spell-heavy deck, that's routinely four to seven cards on the turn it enters. The cost is real: seven mana is a late-game investment, so Conspiracy Unraveler wins games it's allowed to resolve and does very little if it's countered or killed before the trigger resolves.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Conspiracy Unraveler is a legitimate late-game threat in spell-heavy blue and Izzet decks — the ward 2 tax matters in a multiplayer context where opponents have to spend resources across multiple opponents, and a five-card refuel at instant speed on entry can win a stalled game outright. In competitive Commander (cEDH), seven mana is simply too slow; the format wins before this resolves cleanly, and the effect, while powerful, doesn't close games the way a combo piece does. In Modern and Legacy, the competition at seven mana is brutal — Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger set the bar, and Conspiracy Unraveler's draw-only payoff doesn't pressure the board the same way. Pioneer and Standard are more hospitable; spell-heavy midrange and control shells can reach seven mana and will frequently draw four or more cards, making it a real finisher in those formats even if it isn't format-defining.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Conspiracy Unraveler isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given it's a mythic-rarity seven-drop with a conditional effect, it tends to sit in the bulk-mythic range unless it breaks into a competitive format — pick it up at that price point without hesitation for a spell-based Commander deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.