Confront the Unknown
Shadows over Innistrad (SOI) #198 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {G}
Investigate, then target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Clue you control. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
"Never flinch from the truth."
—Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Illustrated by Kev Walker · Released April 8, 2016
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.09 USD · €0.14 EUR
- Foil: $0.48 USD · €0.29 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.01 USD (12.5%) to $0.09 USD; low $0.08 USD, high $0.09 USD.
Printings
- Shadows over Innistrad Remastered #190 (SIR) · Common · 2023
- Shadows over Innistrad #198 (this printing) · Common · 2016 · $0.09 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — You can't cast a spell without choosing legal targets. If all of those targets become illegal, the spell doesn't resolve and you won't investigate.
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — You can't sacrifice a Clue to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Clue token to activate its own ability and also to activate Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's ability.
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — No player may take any action in between the two steps of Confront the Unknown, so the target creature will get at least +1/+1.
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Wrench to pay for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's activated ability.
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — Clue is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some cards with other permanent types, it's never a creature type, a land type, or anything but an artifact type.