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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

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What a Nick Valentine, Private Eye deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many 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 creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Floodhound1 mana
  2. Forensic Gadgeteer3 mana
  3. Erdwal Illuminator2 mana
  4. Piper Wright, Publick Reporter2 mana
  5. Mistway Spy1 mana
  6. April O'Neil, Live on the Scene2 mana
  7. Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths2 mana
  8. James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him3 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Weathered Sentinels3 mana
  2. Twenty-Toed Toad4 mana
  3. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger // Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Katara, Waterbending Master2 mana
  6. Marching Duodrone2 mana
  7. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  8. Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul3 mana

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. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  3. Urza's Saga0 mana
  4. Idol of False Gods2 mana
  5. Myr Sire2 mana
  6. Field of the Dead0 mana
  7. Fountainport0 mana
  8. Pongify1 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. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Filter Out3 mana
  3. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  4. Coercive Portal4 mana
  5. Whelming Wave4 mana
  6. Consuming Tide4 mana
  7. Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
  8. Part the Veil4 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 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

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

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