Cards/The Lost Caverns of Ixalan/River Herald Scout
River Herald Scout
Creature — Merfolk Scout
Oracle Text
When this creature enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
"Don't worry, little swimmers. I'm here for the ruins, not you."
P / T
1 / 2
Print Details
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Number
- #72
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Josu Hernaiz
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- USD
- $0.19
- USD Foil
- $0.22
- EUR
- €0.05
- EUR Foil
- €0.12
- MTGO Tix
- 0.03
Indicative figures.
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Rulings6
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.
If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
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.)
Print Details
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Number
- #72
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Josu Hernaiz
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $0.19
- USD Foil
- $0.22
- EUR
- €0.05
- EUR Foil
- €0.12
- MTGO Tix
- 0.03
Indicative figures.