A declaration in stone is used on a commander, such as Isamaru, Hound of Konda, and the commander is returned to the command zone. Will the player get to investigate as the card was not banished, but instead returned to the command zone? If you could point me to any sources I may have overlooked I would be grateful, the questions I could find related to this card were to other mechanics.
The creature was not exiled, so it was not "exiled this way". The rules do not offer any special meaning for the schema "[objects] [acted on] this way", so you can be confident in this natural language deduction.
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When something says "creature(s) exiled this way" it simply means "creature(s) upon which the 'exile' action was attempted". Basically, "exile" in this case doesn't actually care about where the creature ends up; it cares that the card attempted to exile it. Similarly to how a commander is still "destroyed" by Decree of Pain even if it doesn't actually make it to the Graveyard. Which means that a commander that goes to the command zone from Declaration in Stone is still "exiled this way" even if it doesn't actually make it to the Exile Zone.
While Declaration in Stone's Rulings don't spell this out, Curse of the Swine's do and since it is the same wording, you can be confident that the function is the same:
In a Commander game, if a commander is put into the command zone instead of being exiled by Curse of the Swine, its controller will still get a Boar token. [9/15/2013]
Excellent, the reference to curse of the swine gives a solid precedent to base this off of, thank you for that ruling. The paradigm behind this should also be helpful for getting a new grip on the concept in this game.
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While Declaration in Stone's Rulings don't spell this out, Curse of the Swine's do and since it is the same wording, you can be confident that the function is the same: