Fanatical Offering

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with " {1}

,

, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

The gateway could be opened only by the spilling of innocent blood. Vito did not hesitate.

Illustrated by Raluca Marinescu · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Legalities

Standard: Legal
Pioneer: Legal
Modern: Legal
Legacy: Legal
Vintage: Legal
Duel Commander: Legal
Pauper: Legal

Printings

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #105 common 2023-11-17

Rulings

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If an ability instructs a creature to explore, its controller reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they'll put it into their hand. Otherwise, they'll put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then choose to either leave that card on top of their library or put it into their graveyard.
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Once an ability that causes a creature to explore begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the exploring creature after you reveal a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
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If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
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If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to explore but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still explores. If you reveal a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything, but you may put the revealed card into your graveyard. Effects that trigger "whenever a creature explores" trigger as appropriate.
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Some spells or abilities might cause a creature to explore multiple times in a row. If you reveal a nonland card when a creature explores and leave it on top of your library, then the creature explores again immediately afterwards, you'll reveal the same card again.
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In some unusual cases, noncreature permanents may explore. For example, if the creature card returned by Defossilize is somehow not a creature once it's on the battlefield, it can still explore. You'll take all the same actions, and you may end up putting a +1/+1 counter on the permanent. (Note that some effects target a creature, and those effects would still require a legal target to have it explore.)
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Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability ", , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."

Archetypes that play this card

Pauper

Food Gardens 100.0% of lists
Golgari Gardens 100.0% of lists
Jund Wildfire 100.0% of lists

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Dimir Affinity 33.3% of lists
Other 4.5% of lists
Grixis Affinity 0.9% of lists

Standard

Jund Sacrifice 22.7% of lists
Other 1.4% of lists