Explorer's Scope
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #2232
Explorer's Scope turns combat into land drops — equip it to an attacker and every swing has a chance to put a land into play tapped, effectively stacking landfall triggers while advancing your mana without spending a card. The cost is real: it only fires on attack, it misses non-lands, and at one mana to cast with one to equip it's cheap but not free, so it earns its slot in decks where the equipment itself is part of the engine, like Valduk, Keeper of the Flame, rather than decks that just want ramp.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Valduk, Keeper of the Flame
Valduk, Keeper of the Flame creates an Elemental token for each aura and equipment attached to him at the start of combat, so Explorer's Scope isn't just ramp — it's another token in the army, making the one-mana equip cost almost irrelevant.
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal cares about equipping creatures with auras and equipment to trigger scavenging effects, and Explorer's Scope slots in as a cheap, recurring piece of gear that also happens to accelerate your mana while Dogmeat's engine runs.
Wyleth, Soul of Steel
Wyleth, Soul of Steel draws a card for each aura and equipment attached to him when he attacks, so Explorer's Scope contributes to that card draw count while simultaneously hunting for the next land — two payoffs stapled to one cheap equip.
Galea, Kindler of Hope
Galea, Kindler of Hope lets you play auras and equipment off the top of your library, and Explorer's Scope helps clear non-land cards from the top while adding its own equipment count to the pile of things Galea wants attached to her creatures.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign attacks to cast the top card of your library for free when its mana value is odd, and Explorer's Scope can fire on that same attack trigger to peel a land out of the way first, increasing the odds the card Yennett flips is something worth casting.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Explorer's Scope is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only formats where it sees any meaningful play are Commander and Pauper. In Commander it earns inclusion almost exclusively in equipment-matters or voltron builds where the equip count is itself a payoff — outside that niche, two-mana land acceleration that requires attacking is well below the power bar set by staple ramp. In Pauper, the common restriction makes equipment options scarce enough that Explorer's Scope occasionally appears in aggressive decks that want to stay on curve while threatening combat. Everywhere else — Modern, Legacy, Vintage — the bar for a colorless equipment is prohibitively high and Explorer's Scope doesn't come close to clearing it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Explorer's Scope is bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if the deck wants it. Bulk commons with niche Commander applications tend to stay flat, so there's no urgency to buy multiples as a hedge.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.