---
name: "Deadly Cover-Up"
mana_cost: "{3}{B}{B}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Collect evidence"]
set: "MKM"
set_name: "Murders at Karlov Manor"
collector_number: "399"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Sam Guay"
oracle_id: "04e2afbe-0c08-42bc-93e6-662066a958bf"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/deadly-cover-up-mkm"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Deadly Cover-Up
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{B}{B}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Collect evidence

## Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.
Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Extract a Confession](/printing/extract-a-confession-mkm.md) — Sorcery
2. [Bite Down on Crime](/printing/bite-down-on-crime-mkm.md) — Sorcery
3. [Urgent Necropsy](/printing/urgent-necropsy-pmkm.md) — Instant
4. [Destroy the Evidence](/printing/destroy-the-evidence-rtr.md) — Sorcery
5. [Evidence Examiner](/printing/evidence-examiner-mkm.md) — Creature — Merfolk Detective
6. [Analyze the Pollen](/printing/analyze-the-pollen-pmkm.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) #399
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Sam Guay
- **Total Printings:** 15 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`