Hotshot Investigators
Creature — Vedalken Detective
When this creature enters, return up to one other target creature to its owner's hand. If you controlled it, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #24544
Hotshot Investigators enters as a 2/2 that investigates — giving you a Clue token you can crack for a card — for four mana, which is a perfectly acceptable rate only when you need bodies and incidental draw stapled together. The problem is that four mana for a 2/2 plus one Clue is the floor of acceptable, not a reason to prioritize it.
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, Hotshot Investigators is a role-player in clue- and artifact-token strategies, where the Clue has extra value from payoffs like Tameshi, Reality Architect or Lonis, Cryptozoologist, but it struggles to justify its slot outside those shells. In Pauper, the combination of a body and guaranteed card selection at common is genuinely useful in slower blue-white control lists that want to grind. Hotshot Investigators is legal across Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but those formats move too fast for a four-mana 2/2 to matter competitively. Treat it as a Commander or Pauper card — everywhere else it's outclassed before it untaps.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Hotshot Investigators is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the Clue synergy fits your deck. Don't expect the price to move; it's a common with narrow applications and no scarcity holding it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.