Clandestine Meddler

two generic mana one black mana Creature — Vampire RoguePower and toughness3/2

When this creature enters, suspect up to one other target creature you control. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Whenever one or more suspected creatures you control attack, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

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Clandestine Meddler rulings

2024-02-02
When an effect suspects a creature, it becomes suspected. It gains menace and "This creature can't block" for as long as it's suspected. It stays suspected until it leaves the battlefield or another effect causes it to no longer be suspected.
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If a suspected creature loses all abilities, it will lose menace and "This creature can't block", but it won't stop being suspected.
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Being suspected isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a suspected creature, it won't be suspected.
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If a creature is already suspected, suspecting it again won't have any effect.
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There's no limit to the number of creatures that can be suspected simultaneously. Suspecting a new creature doesn't cause other creatures to stop being suspected.

Clandestine Meddler keyword rules

Surveil Rule 701.42

To “surveil N” means to look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.

If an effect allows you to look at additional cards while you surveil, those cards are included among the cards you may put into your graveyard and on top of your library in any order.

If a player is instructed to surveil 0, no surveil event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a player surveils won’t trigger.

An ability that triggers whenever a player surveils triggers after the process described in rule is complete, even if some or all of those actions were impossible.

Suspect Rule 701.58

Certain spells and abilities instruct a player to suspect a creature. That creature becomes suspected until it leaves the battlefield or until a spell or ability causes it to no longer be suspected.

Suspected is a designation a permanent can have. Only permanents can have the suspected designation. Suspected is neither an ability nor part of the permanent’s copiable values.

A suspected permanent has menace and “This creature can’t block” for as long as it’s suspected.

A suspected permanent can’t become suspected again.