Expose the Culprit

Expose the Culprit

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{R}

How we read this card

Turn target face-down creature face up.

on-cast — turns something into a creature

Exile any number of face-up creatures you control with disguise in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak them.

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Causes: you face a dilemma, a creature is turned face up, exile a creature, a creature leaves the battlefield, shuffle a library, put anything onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature is turned face up — 238 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

  1. Printlifter Ooze — When a creature is turned face up thanks to Expose the Culprit, Printlifter Ooze makes a token
  2. Experiment Twelve — When a creature is turned face up thanks to Expose the Culprit, Experiment Twelve puts its power counters on a permanent
  3. Pyrotechnic Performer — When a creature is turned face up thanks to Expose the Culprit, Pyrotechnic Performer deals its power damage
  4. Pine Walker — When a creature is turned face up thanks to Expose the Culprit, Pine Walker untaps a permanent
  5. Fugitive Codebreaker — When Fugitive Codebreaker is turned face up thanks to Expose the Culprit, it draws and discards
  6. Fatal Mutation — When a creature is turned face up thanks to Expose the Culprit, Fatal Mutation kills it

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

When Expose the Culprit poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a nontoken creature is exiled — 995 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

  1. The War Games — When a creature is exiled thanks to Expose the Culprit, The War Games exiles a Warrior

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to Expose the Culprit:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Kaya, Spirits' Justice — copies a permanent
  4. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Kaya's Ghostform — blinks a permanent

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Expose the Culprit, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

When Expose the Culprit is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Elemental Expressionist — grants a keyword
  3. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  4. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  5. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  6. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  7. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  8. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Expose the Culprit:

  1. Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
  3. Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token
  4. Dual Nature — exiles a creature

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Expose the Culprit:

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
  2. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  3. Aang, Airbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Dour Port-Mage — draws you 1 card
  5. Vela the Night-Clad — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Taeko, the Patient Avalanche — scries
  7. Ninth Bridge Patrol — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature
  9. Sally Sparrow — triggers
  10. Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior — triggers

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

  1. Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival enters thanks to Expose the Culprit, it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  2. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — When Sokka, Bold Boomeranger enters thanks to Expose the Culprit, it draws and discards
  3. Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea — When Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea enters thanks to Expose the Culprit, it becomes prepared

22 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Expose the Culprit is one).

When Expose the Culprit is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.