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◇ Catalog #178

Cenote Scout

lci·#178·uncommon·foil

Illus. Caroline Gariba

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Nov '23

2 yr ago

Value

$0.32+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.33 · low $0.30

NM$0.32

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.30–$0.34modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.32low $0.03range 966.7%n 54

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TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #11,115 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.32

Nonfoil$0.25

Gameplay

Creature — Merfolk Scout

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.)

"If you're afraid to dive into the unknown, how will you ever find anything new?"

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Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2023-11-10wotc

If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.

2023-11-10wotc

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.)

2023-11-10wotc

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.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.32. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.32 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from LCI — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #178 of *The Lost Caverns of Ixalan*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2023 The Lost Caverns of Ixalan release.

Card type: Creature — Merfolk Scout, color identity green, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {G} (1 converted). Keyword abilities: Explore.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #11,115 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Caroline Gariba. Rarix catalogs 180 other cards credited to this artist.