Polygraph Orb
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 99
Oracle Text
When this artifact enters, look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life. {2}, {T}, Collect evidence 3: Each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card or sacrifice a creature. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)
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Card Rulings
- February 2, 2024
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Polygraph Orb's last ability causes both opponents to sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or lose 3 life.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
While resolving Polygraph Orb's last ability, your opponent chooses a card to be discarded without revealing it, chooses a creature to be sacrificed, or chooses to do neither. Then that player discards that card, sacrifices that creature, or loses 3 life. Your opponent can always choose to lose 3 life, even if they have cards to discard or creatures to sacrifice.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
In a multiplayer game, each opponent in turn order makes their choice once, then all of the actions occur simultaneously. Opponents will know choices made by earlier opponents when making their choices, although a card chosen to be discarded this way isn't revealed until it's discarded.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
Source: wotc
Price History
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