Nick Valentine, Private Eye
Nick Valentine can't be blocked except by artifact creatures. Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
How Nick Valentine decks play in EDH
Nick Valentine, Private Eye is a mono-blue commander costing 2U, and its legendary artifact creature - synth detective line shapes the whole deck around it. It makes tokens, so the deck wants ways to pump a wide board and to turn spare bodies into cards or damage. Sacrifice is built into the card, which pairs it with cheap recursive creatures and payoffs that trigger when something dies. The cards below are the ones Nick Valentine, Private Eye decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $32.18Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Card draw (12)
Creatures (5)
Synergy & payoffs (2)
Lands (1)
Build the full 100
Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Nick Valentine, Private Eye decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Nick Valentine, Private Eye deck?
Nick Valentine, Private Eye has a mono-blue colour identity, so every card in the deck must be blue or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Nick Valentine, Private Eye?
The cards played most often in Nick Valentine, Private Eye decks include Fateful Discovery, Flitwing, Lyev Detective, Dragon-Cursed Halls. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Nick Valentine, Private Eye deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $32.18 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Nick Valentine, Private Eye deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.