MetaDelver 79025ab

Printings

• Spotlight Series #5 rare 2025-08-29
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #14s rare 2023-11-17
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #14p rare 2023-11-17
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #333 rare 2023-11-17
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #14 rare 2023-11-17

Rulings

• 2023-11-10
  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.
• 2023-11-10
  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.
• 2023-11-10
  If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
• 2023-11-10
  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.
• 2023-11-10
  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.
• 2023-11-10
  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.)
• 2023-11-10
  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

Duel Commander

1. Aang, Swift Savior 100.0% of lists
2. Elminster 100.0% of lists
3. Satya, Aetherflux Genius 100.0% of lists

Legacy

1. Azorius Tempo 0.5% of lists

Modern

1. Azorius Control 1.7% of lists

Pioneer

1. Azorius Control 100.0% of lists
2. Boros Ponza 100.0% of lists
3. Orzhov Midrange 75.0% of lists

Standard

1. 4c Control 50.7% of lists
2. Boros Dragons 27.8% of lists
3. Azorius Momo 27.6% of lists