Vitu-Ghazi Inspector
Creature — Elf Detective
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Reach
When this creature enters, if evidence was collected, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #24938
Vitu-Ghazi Inspector enters the battlefield, investigates, and leaves you with a Clue token — a free card in waiting — stapled to a 2/2 body for three mana. That rate is too slow for competitive formats but serviceable in casual Commander shells that want artifact tokens or sacrifice fodder.
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, Vitu-Ghazi Inspector fits clue-tribal and artifact-token strategies, where the Clue it generates has more downstream value than the body itself. In Pauper, a 2/2 for three that replaces itself is borderline playable but faces stiff competition from cheaper investigate options. Standard and Pioneer will rarely find room for it outside of budget brews — the mana efficiency just isn't there for constructed formats where every slot is contested. Legacy and Vintage ignore Vitu-Ghazi Inspector entirely; the card doesn't come close to the power threshold those formats demand.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Vitu-Ghazi Inspector is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. Bulk commons rarely move unless a specific synergy deck puts them on a buylist, and nothing about this card suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.