Brackish Blunder
Instant
When the Malamet told him to avoid the river, he thought they meant it wasn't safe to drink.
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- Nonfoil · Foil
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Illustrator
- Daarken
Constructed
Commander
Arena
Other
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, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
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Rulings
7 · latest Nov 10, 2023
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.)
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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." - WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.