Wavesifter 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.
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Official card text
Flying When this creature enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
How it works : Wavesifter
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The token is named Clue Token and has the artifact subtype Clue. Clue isn't a creature type.
Card named in this ruling
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The tokens are normal artifacts. For example, one can be sacrificed to activate the ability of Breya's Apprentice and one can be the target of Break Ties.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You can't sacrifice a Clue to activate its own ability and also to activate another ability that requires sacrificing a Clue (or any artifact) as a cost, such as that of Lonis, Cryptozoologist.
Card named in this ruling
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters + Wavesifter + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth
Infinite artifact tokensInfinite Clue tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite Food tokens
- 1Cast Wavesifter for its evoke cost by paying
. - 2Wavesifter enters the battlefield, triggering itself and its evoke ability.
- 3Resolve the first Wavesifter trigger, creating four Clue, four Treasure, and four Food tokens.
- 4Activate the four Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding
. - 5Activate Temur Sabertooth by paying , returning Wavesifter from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Resolve the second Wavesifter trigger from step 2, failing to sacrifice Wavesifter due to it no longer being on the battlefield.
- 7Repeat.
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#2
Wavesifter + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth + Parallel Lives
Infinite artifact tokensInfinite Clue tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite Food tokens
- 1Cast Wavesifter for its evoke cost by paying .
- 2Wavesifter enters the battlefield, triggering itself and its evoke ability.
- 3Resolve the first Wavesifter trigger, creating four Clue, four Treasure, and four Food tokens.
- 4Activate the four Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Activate Temur Sabertooth by paying , returning Wavesifter from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Resolve the second Wavesifter trigger from step 2, failing to sacrifice Wavesifter due to it no longer being on the battlefield.
- 7Repeat.
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#3
Wavesifter + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth + Doubling Season
Infinite artifact tokensInfinite Clue tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite Food tokens
- 1Cast Wavesifter for its evoke cost by paying .
- 2Wavesifter enters the battlefield, triggering itself and its evoke ability.
- 3Resolve the first Wavesifter trigger, creating four Clue, four Treasure, and four Food tokens.
- 4Activate the four Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Activate Temur Sabertooth by paying , returning Wavesifter from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Resolve the second Wavesifter trigger from step 2, failing to sacrifice Wavesifter due to it no longer being on the battlefield.
- 7Repeat.
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#4
Wavesifter + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth + Primal Vigor
Infinite artifact tokensInfinite Clue tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite Food tokens
- 1Cast Wavesifter for its evoke cost by paying .
- 2Wavesifter enters the battlefield, triggering itself and its evoke ability.
- 3Resolve the first Wavesifter trigger, creating four Clue, four Treasure, and four Food tokens.
- 4Activate the four Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Activate Temur Sabertooth by paying , returning Wavesifter from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Resolve the second Wavesifter trigger from step 2, failing to sacrifice Wavesifter due to it no longer being on the battlefield.
- 7Repeat.
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#5
Enduring Renewal + Wavesifter + Academy Manufactor
Infinite artifact tokensInfinite Clue tokensInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Cast Wavesifter for its evoke cost by paying .
- 2Wavesifter enters the battlefield and is immediately sacrificed, triggering Wavesifter and Enduring Renewal.
- 3Resolve the Wavesifter trigger, creating two Clue, two Food, and two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 4Resolve the Enduring Renewal trigger, returning Wavesifter from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Activate the two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 6Repeat.
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#6
Eldrazi Displacer + Wavesifter + Krark-Clan Ironworks
Infinite artifact tokensInfinite blinkingInfinite card drawInfinite Clue tokens
- 1Activate Eldrazi Displacer by paying
, blinking Wavesifter. - 2When Wavesifter entes the battlefield, it triggers, creating two Clue artifact tokens.
- 3Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks twice by sacrificing the Clues, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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Legal formats
historictimelessgladiatormodernlegacypaupervintagecommanderoathbreakerbrawlcompetitivebrawlpaupercommanderduel
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