Jadelight Spelunker

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) #382 · Rare · Creature — Merfolk Scout

Mana cost: {X}{G}

When this creature enters, it explores X times. (To have it explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

The River Heralds found clues to a grand heritage below Ixalan's surface.

Power/toughness 1/1 · Illustrated by Izzy · Released November 17, 2023

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.03 USD (9.1%) to $0.30 USD; low $0.30 USD, high $0.33 USD.

Printings

  1. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #196 (LCI) · Rare · 2023 · $0.35 USD
  2. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #382 (this printing) · Rare · 2023 · $0.30 USD
  3. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #403 (LCI) · Rare · 2023 · $0.30 USD foil
  4. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #196p (PLCI) · Rare · 2023 · $0.33 USD
  5. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #196s (PLCI) · Rare · 2023 · $0.45 USD foil

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 — 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 2023-11-10 · wotc — If Jadelight Spelunker enters the battlefield without being cast, or if it was cast with X equal to 0, the enters-the-battlefield ability will still trigger, but Jadelight Spelunker won't explore at all.
  5. 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.)
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Hakbal of the Surging Soul · in 20% of 49 decks

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