Armed with Proof is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
When this enchantment enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Clues you control are Equipment in addition to their other types and have "Equipped creature gets +2/+0" and equip
How it works : Armed with Proof
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Clues stop being Equipment if Armed with Proof leaves the battlefield. If any of them are attached to creatures at that time, they become unattached.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If you control more than one Armed with Proof, creatures equipped with Clue Equipment will get +2/+0 for each Armed with Proof you control. The equip cost is still
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
An Equipment without reconfigure that's also a creature can't be attached to anything. You can activate its equip ability, but it won't become attached. For example, if you control both Red Herring and Armed with Proof, Red Herring will be an Artifact Creature – Clue Equipment Fish with "Equipped creature gets +2/+0" and equip
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #7· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #8· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Ekthi, Contaminator Priest + Armed with Proof + Case of the Pilfered Proof
- 1Cast Armed with Proof by paying
. - 2When Armed with Proof enters, it triggers, creating three Clue tokens due to Case of the Pilfered Proof.
- 3When the Clues enter as Equipment due to Armed with Proof, their living weapon abilities given by them to Ekthi each trigger.
- 4Resolve the first living weapon trigger, creating a 0/0 Phyrexian Germ creature token and a Clue token due to Case of the Pilfered Proof.
- 5When the Clue enters as an Equipment, its living weapon ability triggers, creating a 0/0 Phyrexian Germ creature token and a Clue token due to Case of the Pilfered Proof.
- 6Repeat step 5.
Flitwing, Lyev Detective + Ekthi, Contaminator Priest + Armed with Proof
- 1Cast Armed with Proof by paying .
- 2When Armed with Proof enters, it triggers, creating two Clue tokens.
- 3When the Clues enter as Equipment due to Armed with Proof, their living weapon abilities given by them to Ekthi each trigger.
- 4Resolve the first living weapon trigger, creating a Clue token due to Flitwing.
- 5When the Clue enters as an Equipment, its living weapon ability triggers, creating a Clue token.
- 6Repeat step 5.
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