Defective Detective
Unstable 32 • common
- Set
- Unstable
- Collector number
- 32
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Matt Dixon
- Market price
- $0.05
What it does
This creature can't be blocked.
When this creature enters, a person outside the game looks at target opponent's hand and chooses a card from it. That player reveals that card.
Nothing gets by her . . . except the evidence, the motive, and the culprit.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
Defective Detective was released in 2017 as part of the Unstable set for Magic: The Gathering, a silver-bordered expansion designed specifically for casual play. The set was conceived by head designer Mark Rosewater as a creative playground to explore mechanics that could not exist within the rigid rules of tournament-sanctioned play, focusing on themes of eccentricity, mad science, and creative subversion.
The card was illustrated by David Palumbo, whose dark and textural artistic style provided a stark, atmospheric contrast to the set's humorous tone. Featuring a noir-inspired investigator struggling with a malfunctioning magnifying glass, the piece highlights the set's goal of blending visual storytelling with the ludic absurdity of cards that actively interfere with their own functionality.
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About Defective Detective
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