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Fixing blue and red on the same tapland already tells you which guild this belongs to: Izzet is the color pair that treats card selection as a resource, so a mana source that can also spend surplus mana to Investigate lands exactly where that identity lives. The Investigate line is priced to stay out of your way: four mana to make the Clue, then two more to crack it, six mana in total before you see a card. That expense is the entire point of putting a repeatable card-advantage ability on a land. It enters tapped and asks a steep toll so it never warps your early curve or tempo; it exists to convert a flooded board into cards once the rest of your hand has run out. Investigate on a land is scarcer than Investigate on a spell or creature, because a land that also draws cards drifts toward the kind of self-sufficient utility land that historically proves very hard to answer. The gating keeps the design honest without gutting it: you pay full retail for every Clue, and the mana it consumes is mana you were unlikely to spend elsewhere. What you get is a fixing land that quietly turns the late game's dead draws into fuel.

Library (clu)
CLU · #18uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Blue mana or Red mana. 4 generic mana, Tap: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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