Chalk Outline 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
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
How it works : Chalk Outline
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If multiple creature cards leave your graveyard at the same time, Chalk Outline's ability will trigger only once.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· 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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- #3· 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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- #4· 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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- #5· 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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- #6· 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.
Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Chalk Outline
- 1Activate Tortured Existence by paying
and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand. - 2Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding .
- 4Repeat.
Phyrexian Altar + Chalk Outline + Reassembling Skeleton
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding .
- 2Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying
, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield. - 3Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token and a Clue token.
- 4Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar + Chalk Outline
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Nether Traitor, adding one mana of any color.
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing another creature, adding .
- 3When the creature dies, Nether Traitor triggers, causing you to pay to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token.
- 5Repeat.
Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Chalk Outline
- 1Activate Tortured Existence by paying and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- 2Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token.
- 3Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding
. - 4When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 6Repeat.
Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer + Chalk Outline
- 1Activate Tortured Existence by paying and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- 2Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token.
- 3Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing the creature token.
- 4When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Resolve the Viscera Seer ability.
- 6Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 7Repeat.
Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Altar of Dementia + Chalk Outline
- 1Activate Tortured Existence by paying and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- 2Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token.
- 3Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing the creature token.
- 4When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
- 6Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 7Repeat.
Phyrexian Altar + Chalk Outline + Bloodsoaked Champion
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Bloodsoaked Champion, adding .
- 2Activate Bloodsoaked Champion by paying , returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 3Chalk Outline triggers, creating a creature token and a Clue token.
- 4Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Snarling Gorehound + Insidious Roots + Chalk Outline + Moss-Pit Skeleton
- 1Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.
- 2Moss-Pit Skeleton triggers, putting itself on top of your library.
- 3Chalk Outline and Insidious Roots trigger.
- 4Resolve the Chalk Outline trigger, creating a 2/2 Detective creature token and a Clue token.
- 5When the Detective enters the battlefield, Snarling Gorehound triggers, causing you to surveil 1, putting Moss-Pit Skeleton into your graveyard from the top of your library.
- 6Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token, then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- 7Moss-Pit Skeleton and Snarling Gorehound trigger.
- 8Resolve the Snarling Gorehound trigger, causing you to surveil 1.
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