If you are casting a spell from your graveyard (for example, a spell with flashback) you can't also exile that card to pay the alternative collect evidence cost offered by Conspiracy Unraveler.
Conspiracy Unraveler
If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than pay its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Demand Answers, those must be paid to cast the card.
If you cast a spell with the alternative collect evidence cost offered by Conspiracy Unraveler and you also collect evidence as an additional cost to cast that spell, abilities of permanents that trigger "whenever you collect evidence" will trigger twice. This is also true for abilities that trigger "whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard." For example, let's say you control Conspiracy Unraveler and Evidence Examiner. You cast Crimestopper Sprite and choose to collect evidence 10 rather than pay its mana cost. You also choose to collect evidence 6 as an additional cost. Each of these will cause Evidence Examiner's last ability to trigger, and you'll end up investigating twice.
Last observed on Scryfall 15 hours ago at $1.24, up from $1.23 thirty days ago. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $1.23 and $1.24 across 34 observations — a stable band. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PMKM — the lineup includes Foil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #47s of *Murders at Karlov Manor Promos*, the promotional run that shipped alongside the February 2024 Murders at Karlov Manor release.
Card type: Creature — Sphinx Detective, color identity blue, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {5}{U}{U} (7 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Collect evidence.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #14,057 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds. Rarix catalogs 802 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Wayne Reynolds
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