Limited Draft Guide

Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Crush your next MTG draft with our Murders at Karlov Manor draft guide, including a color tier list, card ratings, set mechanics, and more.

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Table of Contents

Set Overview
Top Colors & Top Commons
Archetypes & Signpost Uncommons
Most Popular Combat Tricks
Set Mechanics

Set OverviewStats based on: Premier Draft

Avg. Game Turns

9.3

Fast

Slow

Avg. Game Duration

8.8 min

Short

Long

Best Performing Colors

BestWorst

Draftable Cards

284

100

MTGA Release Date

2024

February 6

Top Colors Combinations

Tier

Colors

6+ Wins

Popularity

Tier

Boros

13.0%

Selesnya

7.2%

Tier

Azorius

8.4%

Izzet

8.0%

Simic

5.4%

Orzhov

5.3%

Golgari

5.2%

Sultai

3.7%

Bant

3.3%

Tier

Rakdos

5.8%

Dimir

5.1%

Gruul

4.6%

Naya

3.8%

Jeskai

3.7%

Temur

2.2%

Tier

Mardu

3.2%

Esper

2.9%

Abzan

2.4%

Grixis

2.2%

Jund

1.5%

Low Match Volume

Tier

5-Color

0.6%

4-Color

0.5%

4-Color

0.5%

4-Color

0.4%

4-Color

0.4%

4-Color

0.2%

Mono Green

0.2%

Mono Blue

0.1%

Mono White

0.1%

Mono Black

0.1%

Mono Red

0.1%

Top Commons by Color

Archetypes & Signpost Uncommons

Azorius

Detectives

Get on your opponent's case with this fast midrange strategy. Leverage Detective typal bonuses to overwhelm your opponent's defenses, and sacrifice Clues to refill your hand in the late game.View Azorius decks

Dimir

Clues Control

Use defensive spells to extend the game and generate Clues, then turn the excess mana into a card advantage that will bury your opponent under a mountain of value.View Dimir decks

Rakdos

Suspect Aggro

Suspected creatures have menace and can't block. Keep attacking with your suspicious characters, and your opponents will be helpless to stop them.View Rakdos decks

Gruul

Big Disguise

Spend the early game accelerating your mana and setting up a face-down board state, then beat down your opponent's side of the board by flipping over haymaker after haymaker.View Gruul decks

Selesnya

Go-Wide disguise

Flood the battlefield with face-down creatures and accrue impressive rewards whenever they're turned face up.View decks

Orzhov

Pint-Size Disguise

Face-down creatures bolster your strategy, which rewards playing creatures with power 2 or less and boosting them to become more impressive attackers.View Orzhov decks

Izzet

Artifact Sacrifice

Generate and sacrifice Clue tokens strategically to gain a massive card advantage over your opponent. Then, chip away at their defenses by attacking with evasive Thopters that bring death from above.View Izzet decks

Golgari

Gravebreak

Use the collect evidence mechanic and raise the dead to support a long-game strategy that gives you extra value whenever a creature card leaves your graveyard.View Golgari decks

Boros

Battalion

This classic Ravnican strategy adds extra punch to aggressive red and white creatures by providing a bonus whenever you attack with three or more of them.View decks

Simic

Collect Evidence

Rapidly fill up your graveyard and collect evidence to power up your spells while amassing permanents that reward you each time you do so.View decks

Most Popular Combat Tricks

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Set Mechanics

Disguise

A disguise ability lets you cast a card face down by paying {3} and announcing that you are using a disguise ability. Any time you have priority, you can turn a face-down permanent with disguise face up by paying its disguise cost.

View all 36 Disguise cards

View All 36 Disguise Cards

Cloak

To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down. It becomes a 2/2 face-down creature card with ward {2} and no name, mana cost, or creature types. It's colorless and has a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the permanent can still grant it any characteristics it doesn't have or change the characteristics it does have.

View all 5 Cloak cards

View All 5 Cloak Cards

Case

A murder, you say? Well, good news: the many detectives of Ravnica are on the Case! Well, several Cases, actually. There's a bit of a backlog. Maybe you can help; we've got a few unsolved Cases for you to look at, and if you manage to solve them, our grateful citizens will even reward you.

View all 12 Case cards

View All 12 Case Cards

Collect Evidence

On Ravnica, we don't solve cases on hunches alone. Aspiring detectives like you go out into the field and collect evidence so we can figure out what happened. To "collect evidence N", exile cards with total mana value N or greater from your graveyard.

View all 22 Collect Evidence cards

View All 22 Collect Evidence Cards

Suspect

So you're pretty sure you know who did it, right? No need to bring them in for questioning yet; you can feel free to suspect whomever you like. Some spells and abilities will allow you to suspect a creature. Suspected creatures have menace and can't block.

View all 19 Suspect cards

View All 19 Suspect Cards

Investigate

But how do you know who did it? Like I said before, hunches aren't enough. You'll have to go out and find at least one clue. Preferably more, of course. Whenever you investigate, you create a Clue token.

View all 40 Investigate cards

View All 40 Investigate Cards

Split Cards

The detectives of Ravnica have plenty of choices to make, and so will you when you're casting split cards! Each split card has two card faces on it, and each card face represents an individual spell you can cast.

View all 6 Split Cards cards

View All 6 Split Cards Cards