galaxies, especially those in the field, are promising sites for the discovery of new faint galaxies [@Sales2013; @Wheeler2015].

A second application would be to clarify the effects of environment on the star formation history of dwarfs [@Donghia2008; @Wetzel2015]. An unambiguous identification of Magellanic origin would enable a direct comparison with Galactic satellites of similar stellar mass that have evolved in a rather different environment. Finally, Magellanic satellites might also provide clues to the nature of dark matter: indeed, fewer satellites are expected around the Milky Way in general, and the LMC in particular, if dark matter was “warm” rather than cold [see, e.g., @Kennedy2014].

Given this context, it is not surprising that the recent discovery of a number of candidate dwarfs in southern surveys targeting the Clouds’ vicinity, such as the Dark Energy Survey [DES; @Bechtol2015; @Koposov2015; @Drlica2015; @Kim2015a; @Kim2015b], the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History [SMASH; @Martin2015], as well as in other large surveys, such as PAN-STARRS [@Laevens2015], and ATLAS [@Torrealba2016], have attracted much attention.

While not all of these candidates have follow-up spectroscopy confirming that they are dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies rather than star clusters—six have spectra thus far [@Walker2016; @Kirby2015; @Martin2016]—they do occupy the same region 