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Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight

Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor // Legendary Enchantment

Jacob Hauken wants a deck that casts extra spells for free off the top of its deck. It also works in a deck built around Advisors, Humans or Library Manipulation.

  • Mana cost1 genericblue
  • Blue ()
  • Power / toughness0 / 2
  • RarityMythic

tap: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled. You may pay 4 genericblueblue. If you do, transform Jacob Hauken.

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At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Once during each of your turns, you may play a land or cast a spell from among the cards exiled with this permanent without paying its mana cost.

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Jacob Hauken, Inspector

Picked for what they do in Jacob Hauken's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Jacob Hauken's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Jacob Hauken, Inspector

explain how Jacob Hauken works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 19 Nov 2021

Once Hauken's Insight leaves the battlefield, the player that controlled it may no longer play the exiled cards. If it's destroyed and somehow returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of the previously exiled cards.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Nov 2021

Paying {4}{U}{U} and transforming Jacob Hauken, Inspector is part of the resolution of the activated ability. You draw a card and exile a card before choosing whether to pay.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Nov 2021

Playing a card using the last ability of Hauken's Insight follows all the normal timing rules for that card. For example, if you play a land this way, you may do so only during your main phase while the stack is empty and only if you haven't yet played a land (unless another effect allows you to play additional lands).

Wizards of the Coast 19 Nov 2021

You may play cards this way that were exiled with Jacob Hauken, Inspector before it transformed into Hauken's Insight.

4 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Jacob Hauken, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryUPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.Cascade/Free CastCascade decks cast extra spells for free, straight from the top of their deck, every time they cast the right card. Cascade turns over cards from the top of your library until it hits a cheaper spell, which you may cast without paying for it.Open the Cascade/Free Cast pageImpulse DrawExiles cards from the top of your library and lets you play them for a short time, usually only that turn. You have to use them or lose them. Act on Impulse Prosper, Tome-BoundOpen the Impulse Draw pageFree CastCan be cast without paying its mana cost when a condition is met, often "if you control your commander". Because it costs nothing, you can still answer something after your mana is already spent. Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting SwatOpen the Free Cast pageCard SelectionImproves what you draw rather than how much: you look at the top few cards of your library and decide what stays on top. Ponder lets you rearrange the top three, Serum Visions lets you scry, and Consider lets you surveil. It makes your draws more reliable without giving you extra cards.Open the Card Selection pageLibrary ManipulationCards that let you look at, rearrange or play from the top of your deck, so you control what you draw next.Open the Library Manipulation page