Surveillance Monitor

three generic mana one blue mana Creature — Vedalken DetectivePower and toughness3/3

When this creature enters, you may collect evidence 4. (Exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater from your graveyard.)

Whenever you collect evidence, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Thopters don't take breaks, and neither does he.

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Surveillance Monitor rulings

2024-02-02
Surveillance Monitor's last ability triggers whenever you collect evidence for any reason, not just when you collect evidence with its first ability.
2024-02-02
If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
2024-02-02
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.

Surveillance Monitor keyword rules

Collect evidence Rule 701.57

To “collect evidence N” means to exile any number of cards from your graveyard with total mana value N or greater.

If a player is given the choice to collect evidence but is unable to exile cards with total mana value N or greater from their graveyard (usually because there aren’t enough cards to do so) they can’t choose to collect evidence.

A spell that has an ability that allows a player to collect evidence as an additional cost to cast it may have another ability that refers to whether evidence was collected. These abilities are linked. See rule , “Linked Abilities.”