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Valakut Exploration

Enchantment2 generic manaRed mana

Impulse-draw in red has always carried a cruel clause: whatever you don't cast this turn vanishes, and you gained nothing for the greed. This rewrites that contract. Every land drop exiles a card you can play, but only until your end step arrives; whatever you haven't played by then is swept into the graveyard, and the enchantment burns each opponent for the count. So the exile pool isn't a stash you draw down at your leisure, it's a window that closes at your end step, and the mandatory end-step trigger is what turns leftovers into reach instead of waste. That reframes the whole engine. A deck flopping fetches and extra land drops floods the pool fast, then races to spend it before the clock catches up; a deck that can't empty the pile converts the overflow to damage automatically. Either reading is fine, because both do work: cards you play advance your board and hand, cards you don't advance the burn. It sits alongside the red tradition of top-of-library velocity that pushes you to spend fast, Light Up the Stage and the older expire-at-end-of-turn impulse effects, but those punish you for holding while this one doesn't. The leftovers aren't a penalty here, they're ammunition, and the design's real interest is that the same pile of exiled cards is measured two ways at once: as resources you might still cast, and as damage you're already assured of dealing.

Valakut Exploration (prm)
PRM · #83714rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.41
Foil: $4.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.
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
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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