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Ulvenwald Mysteries

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7133
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Ulvenwald Mysteries card art
Ulvenwald Mysteries turns every creature death into a Clue token and every Clue crack into a 1/1 Human soldier — a two-axis engine that generates board presence and card advantage simultaneously for three mana. Pair it with Academy Manufactor to triple the token output, or slot it into Lonis, Cryptozoologist to convert every Clue into a tutor effect.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lonis, Cryptozoologist

49.6% of decks · synergy 0.49

Lonis, Cryptozoologist converts each Clue sacrifice into a 'search your library' effect, so Ulvenwald Mysteries functions as a creature-death-to-tutor pipeline — every blocker your opponents trade away becomes a free Explore trigger.

02
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

49.6% of decks · synergy 0.48

Morska, Undersea Sleuth rewards you for investigating and cracking Clues, and Ulvenwald Mysteries supplies both sides of that loop whenever a creature dies — the two cards together turn combat damage into a self-sustaining card advantage engine.

03
Jenny FlintMadame Vastra

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra

30.8% of decks · synergy 0.30

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra cares about Clue volume, and Ulvenwald Mysteries feeds that count off any creature death, giving the deck a passive Clue generator that doesn't require dedicating spell slots to investigation.

04
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

20.6% of decks · synergy 0.20

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch sacrifices artifacts for value, and Ulvenwald Mysteries provides a steady stream of Clue tokens as sacrifice fodder — each creature death translates directly into fuel for Lysaga's activated ability.

05
Sophia, Dogged Detective

Sophia, Dogged Detective

21.0% of decks · synergy 0.19

Sophia, Dogged Detective scales on Clues and artifact tokens broadly, and Ulvenwald Mysteries is one of the most efficient ways to generate Clues passively; the combination means any board wipe or combat step accelerates Sophia's power while replacing the creatures lost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ulvenwald Mysteries does its best work — 100-card singleton games feature regular creature death from combat, sacrifice synergies, and board wipes, all of which feed the Clue-and-soldier engine continuously over a long game. In Modern and Pioneer, the card is legal but too slow and too dependent on creatures dying on your opponent's schedule to compete with the formats' proactive threats. Legacy and Vintage give it even less room — three mana for a conditional draw-and-token effect is nowhere near the power floor those formats demand. Stick to Commander, where the enchantment's passive value generation compounds over multiple turns and the Clue subtheme has genuine tribal support to exploit.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

114 decks
Academy ManufactorUlvenwald MysteriesCauldron FamiliarAshnod's Altar

Academy ManufactorUlvenwald MysteriesCauldron FamiliarAshnod's Altar

Infinite card draw; Infinite Clue tokens; Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite colorless mana

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Ulvenwald Mysteries isn't currently available in our database, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Historically it has sat in the bulk-to-low-cost range, making it an easy pickup if you're building any Clue, investigate, or token-sacrifice shell in Commander.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.