Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight

Jacob Hauken, Inspector

one generic mana one blue mana Legendary Creature — Human AdvisorPower and toughness0/2

tap this permanent : 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 four generic mana one blue mana . If you do, transform Jacob Hauken.

"Our world may be dark, but there's still plenty to see."

Hauken's Insight

Legendary Enchantment

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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Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight rulings

2021-11-19
Paying 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.
2021-11-19
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).
2021-11-19
You may play cards this way that were exiled with Jacob Hauken, Inspector before it transformed into Hauken's Insight.
2021-11-19
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.

Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight keyword rules

Transform Rule 701.28

To transform a permanent, turn it over so that its other face is up. Only transforming tokens and permanents represented by transforming double-faced cards can transform. (See rule , “Double-Faced Cards.”)

Although transforming a permanent uses the same physical action as turning a permanent face up or face down, they are different game actions. Abilities that trigger when a permanent is turned face down won’t trigger when that permanent transforms, and so on.

If a spell or ability instructs a player to transform a permanent that isn’t represented by a transforming token or a transforming double-faced card, nothing happens.

If a spell or ability instructs a player to transform a permanent, and the face that permanent would transform into is represented by an instant or sorcery card face, or is a transforming token that was created with an instant or sorcery face, nothing happens.

Some triggered abilities trigger when an object “transforms into” an object with a specified characteristic. Such an ability triggers if the object either transforms or converts (see rule ) and has the specified characteristic immediately after it does so.

If an activated or triggered ability of a permanent that isn’t a delayed triggered ability of that permanent tries to transform it, the permanent does so only if it hasn’t transformed or converted since the ability was put onto the stack. If a delayed triggered ability of a permanent tries to transform that permanent, the permanent does so only if it hasn’t transformed or converted since that delayed triggered ability was created. In both cases, if the permanent has already transformed or converted, an instruction to do either is ignored.

Some spells and abilities refer to a “transformed permanent.” This phrase refers to a permanent on the battlefield with its back face up that’s also a transforming double-faced card or a transforming token. A permanent with its front face up is never considered a transformed permanent, even if it had its back face up previously.