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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #63 · Rare · Creature — Merfolk Scout

Mana cost: {2}{G}

When this creature enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
If a creature you control would explore, instead it explores, then it explores again.

"Good thing I'm not afraid of heights."

Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Lindsey Look · Released November 17, 2023

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.04 USD (8.7%) to $0.42 USD; low $0.42 USD, high $0.46 USD.

Printings

  1. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #63 (this printing) · Rare · 2023 · $0.42 USD
  2. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #95 (LCC) · Rare · 2023 · $0.31 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2023-11-10 · wotc — 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.
  2. 2023-11-10 · wotc — Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."
  3. 2023-11-10 · wotc — If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
  4. 2023-11-10 · wotc — 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.
  5. 2023-11-10 · wotc — 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.
  6. 2023-11-10 · wotc — 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.)
  7. 2023-11-10 · wotc — 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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