Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths
Creature — Human Rogue // Creature — Human Wizard
When you sacrifice a Clue, transform this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #18089
Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths flips into a card-drawing engine the moment you sacrifice a clue, stapling a repeatable draw trigger onto a two-mana blue creature. The floor is modest, but in any deck generating clue tokens at scale, the back half pays for itself inside a single turn cycle.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths earns consistent consideration, specifically in clue-token or investigate-heavy builds where the back side triggers on nearly every turn. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against more efficient two-drops and rarely makes the cut outside niche artifact-synergy brews. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the power ceiling is simply too low for those formats. Oathbreaker could support it in the right artifact-matters shell, but the same clue-density requirement applies.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths is deep bulk — zero financial risk to pick up a playset. Price movement is essentially impossible unless a future set pushes investigate into genuine competitive relevance.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.