Ongoing Investigation

Ongoing Investigation

Enchantment

Mana cost: {1}{U}

How we read this card

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, investigate.

triggered —

Investigate. You gain 2 life.

activated {1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard —

activated {1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard —

activated {1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard — gains you 2 life

Causes: create a Clue artifact token, put a Clue artifact token onto the battlefield, exile a creature, a creature leaves a graveyard, gain life.

Cares about: a creature deals combat damage.

Works well with

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

  1. The War Games — When a creature is exiled thanks to Ongoing Investigation, The War Games exiles a Warrior

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

When a creature is exiled thanks to Ongoing Investigation:

  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

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Ongoing Investigation:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

When Ongoing Investigation gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 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 (Ongoing Investigation is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Ongoing Investigation, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Ongoing Investigation:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

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

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

When Ongoing Investigation is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Ongoing Investigation enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

When a Clue enters thanks to Ongoing Investigation:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes a token
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Ongoing Investigation is one).

When Ongoing Investigation makes a Clue token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card

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