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Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Legendary Artifact Creature — Synth Detective · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Nick Valentine can't be blocked except by artifact creatures. Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
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What Nick Valentine, Private Eye actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Nick Valentine, Private Eye deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Nick Valentine, Private Eye deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  2. Endless Evil3 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Enduring Curiosity4 mana
  5. Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison4 mana
  6. Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry4 mana
  7. Dunes of the Dead0 mana
  8. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time4 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Spawning Pit2 mana
  3. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  4. Phyrexian Altar3 mana
  5. High Market0 mana
  6. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  7. Witch's Oven1 mana
  8. Culling Dais2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  6. Titan's Presence3 mana
  7. Icy Prison2 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  6. Evacuation5 mana
  7. Perplexing Test5 mana
  8. Cyclonic Rift2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Commander's Plate1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

Combos with Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Nick Valentine, Private Eye is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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