If a card had “gift a clue” would the reminder text read “they create a clue token” or “they investigate”?

You don’t have your investigate to create a Clue.

I totally understand your feeling that tying clue creation to a keyword was a mistake, especially with hindsight and all the predefined tokens we have now. But that makes me curious as to whether there was ever any discussion of doing away with Investigate for MKM? It does seem like a perfect opportunity to cut out the middleman and simply say that a card creates a clue token.

Cutting the term investigate on a set about murder mysteries seemed wrong.

If investigate was a mistake why did you create incubate?

An incubator token is not an artifact token with the utility of Clues.

Inspired by all the Detective cards, I recently opened my Esper-colored Warhammer Commander precon, Inquisitor Greyfax, and starting putting together an Investigate Commander deck. I ended up with "draws matter" and "artifacts matter" themes to go with the Clues and lined up numerous Doctor Who UB characters (mostly companions) and one or two from the Stranger Things Secret Lair drop. Lastly, I found Starscream from Transformer in my Brother's War stuff and he went along nicely with drawing matters. While this is certainly a strange combination of properties, building the deck was fun and I've been embracing UB as part of the process.

The Fallout set looks amazing and I've always been a fan of the series. I'm pretty neutral on Assassin's Creed and even Marvel, but good card designs get me excited no matter who the characters are, so I'll be picking some up surely.So there's some positive feedback for UB. To make this an ask, is there a place we can suggest possible properties to seek out for future UBs? I have a wish list.

Tell me and I can pass them along.

With Murders at Karlov Manor using Clues as a major theme again, was there any discussion to just creating the tokens instead of using the investigate keyword?

It’s hard not to use the word investigate in a top-down murder mystery set. Future sets with Clues might consider it.

Some really cool cards have been previewed today! I especially liked A Killer Among Us. My question has nothing to do with that card, though. I see disguise, suspected, cases, cloak, and they all seem very complicated mechanics. Even investigate puts a lot of complexity for a single action. Were there any apprehensions about this set’s complexity?

The set, as a whole, is less complicated than you think. Disguise/cloak is probably the most complicated mechanic, but a lot of players have experience with morph, and this version is a little simpler due to the ward as there’s less spell interaction with facedown creatures.

If the existence of investigate causes such a hassle when compared to other predefined tokens without keyword actions, have you considered errata-ing it away? Voldaren Bloodcaster shows that cards that care about investigating could just care about creating the Clues.

It’s less that it causes a hassle than it’s not necessary. We don’t tend to errata that kind of thing away.

What's more likely, clues being untethered from Investigate or a new token similar to clues like what treasure was to gold?

We’ve made cards that create Clues without investigating.

Hi, Mark. Can I get a maybe on clue and/or investigate being in Murders at Karlov Mansion?

Maybe. : )

Bonsoir, Mark! When new keyword mechanics are made, we sometimes see old cards with identical text errata'd to have the keyword (like Surveil, recently). Is the reverse possible? For example, could Investigate on old cards be replaced with "Create a Clue token" if the designers felt it was the best approach?

I think we’re going to continue with investigate for creating Clue tokens.