Expedition Map
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $1.37
- EDHREC rank
- #442
Expedition Map tutors any land directly to your hand for a total investment of three mana and two cards, which is the cleanest answer to 'what land do I need right now' that colorless can offer. It earns a slot in any deck whose gameplan depends on a specific land — and in Omo, Queen of Vesuva builds, where finding Vesuva or Thespian's Stage is the difference between your engine firing and stalling.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva's entire strategy revolves around copy lands like Vesuva and Thespian's Stage to replicate the best land on the table, and Expedition Map is the most reliable way to fetch whichever copy land you're missing at the start of the game.
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene wants Maze's End in play as fast as possible, and Expedition Map is an unconditional tutor for it — the card doesn't care what colors your deck runs or what your hand looks like.
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful cEDH lists use Expedition Map to find Gaea's Cradle or a specific utility land on demand, giving a colorless toolbox option that needs no blue mana to function.
Tameshi, Reality Architect
Tameshi, Reality Architect decks recur artifacts and lands from the graveyard as their primary engine, and Expedition Map doubles as both a land tutor and a cheap artifact to pitch and loop back.
Toshiro Umezawa
Toshiro Umezawa is a mono-black commander who can't lean on green for land fixing, making Expedition Map one of the few colorless ways to guarantee Cabal Coffers or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth shows up on time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Expedition Map does its best work — singleton means the land you need most is always exactly one copy deep, and three total mana for unconditional land tutoring is a price Commander is happy to pay. In Pauper it's a legitimate staple, enabling Tron assembles and utility-land packages at a common rate. Modern sees it almost exclusively in Tron, where finding the third Tron piece on turn two is worth the tempo cost. In Legacy, Pioneer, and Vintage the competition from cheaper or more flexible tutors pushes Expedition Map to the margins, but it remains legal and occasionally correct in land-combo shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.37 cheap tier
At $1.37, Expedition Map sits comfortably in the cheap tier — it's been reprinted often enough to stay affordable while remaining a genuine staple. It's not a card you buy for value; it's one you pick up because your deck needs it and there's no meaningful budget barrier to doing so.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Omo, Queen of Vesuva
- Nine-Fingers Keene
- Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
- Tameshi, Reality Architect
- Toshiro Umezawa
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.