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Enter the Unknown

SorceryGreen mana

Explore, tuned into a one-mana enabler that leans forward instead of digging deep. The keyword's fork is the whole mechanism: reveal a land and it goes to hand, reveal a nonland and your creature grows while you choose to keep the card on top or bin it. Note that this only draws a card in the land case; against a nonland it is a +1/+1 counter plus a scry-like decision, not a reliable replacement, so calling it a cantrip oversells it. The second line is where the design gets clever. The extra land drop catches whichever half the explore hands you: if the lookup surfaces a land, you already have permission to play it this turn; if it surfaces a nonland, you have smoothed the next few draws and pumped your creature. That dovetail is why the additional land clause belongs on an explore spell rather than a plain ramp piece, since the lookup has already paid for the information. The cost of all this is that it does nothing without a creature already in play, and it commits a card and a mana to a board that may not survive the crackback. Within the explore family this sits at the cheapest, most tempo-oriented end: less a ramp payoff than a way to keep a green creature deck's draws moving while quietly padding its land count.

Enter the Unknown (rix)
RIX · #128uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.41
Foil: $1.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature you control explores. (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 the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.) You may play an additional land this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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