Flotsam // Jetsam

Flotsam // Jetsam

Card Information

Type (Front): Instant

Type (Back): Sorcery

Mana Cost (Front): 1Green or Blue mana

Mana Cost (Back): 4Blue or Black manaBlue or Black mana

Mana Cost: 1Green or Blue mana4Blue or Black manaBlue or Black mana

CMC: 8

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for BMana symbol for GMana symbol for U

Set: Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Rarity: Uncommon

Collector Number: 247

Oracle Text

Flotsam

Mill three cards. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Jetsam

Each opponent mills three cards, then you may cast a spell from each opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Keywords

InvestigateMill

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Legal)
penny(Not Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Legal)
standard(Legal)
timeless(Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Related Cards

Clue(Token Artifact — Clue)
Flotsam // Jetsam(Instant // Sorcery)

Card Rulings

  1. February 2, 2024

    Clue is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some cards with other permanent types, it's never a creature type, a land type, or anything but an artifact type.

    Source: wotc
  2. February 2, 2024

    If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Wrench to pay for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's activated ability.

    Source: wotc
  3. February 2, 2024

    You choose whether to cast spells from opponents' graveyards as Jetsam resolves. If you do, you do so as part of the resolution of Jetsam. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the cards' types are ignored.

    Source: wotc
  4. February 2, 2024

    Some spells and abilities that investigate may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Clue tokens.

    Source: wotc
  5. February 2, 2024

    A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Cease // Desist has a mana value of 8 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Cease // Desist.

    Source: wotc
  6. February 2, 2024

    Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.

    Source: wotc
  7. February 2, 2024

    Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Cease // Desist counts once, not twice.

    Source: wotc
  8. February 2, 2024

    If a spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

    Source: wotc
  9. February 2, 2024

    You can't sacrifice a Clue to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Clue token to activate its own ability and also to activate Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's ability.

    Source: wotc
  10. February 2, 2024

    Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.

    Source: wotc
  11. February 2, 2024

    Some abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Clue". Those abilities trigger whenever you sacrifice a Clue for any reason, not just to activate a Clue's activated ability.

    Source: wotc
  12. February 2, 2024

    If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.

    Source: wotc
  13. February 2, 2024

    If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Cease this way, but not Desist.

    Source: wotc
  14. February 2, 2024

    To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of any of the split cards featured in this set.

    Source: wotc

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