World Map
Artifact
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
, , 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
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #3482
World Map enters tapped, lets you tap it on subsequent turns to scry 1, and after three scry activations puts a basic land from your library onto the battlefield tapped — payoff deferred over multiple turns for a colorless artifact that any deck can slot. The three-activation threshold means you need four turns of investment for a land-to-battlefield effect, which makes it a role-player rather than a staple — run it if your deck rewards repeated scrying or if you're genuinely scraping for budget ramp and nothing else is available.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Wandering Minstrel
The Wandering Minstrel's triggered ability fires whenever you scry, so World Map's three mandatory scry 1 activations become three free triggers before it even finds a land — and if Minstrel is already on board, every activation is both card-selection and an additional payoff.
Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
Ultima, Origin of Oblivion accumulates counters or value from repeated low-investment actions, and World Map's slow drip of scry activations fits that incremental-resource pattern — it's not a power pick, but the 14.5% inclusion rate reflects that Ultima pilots are willing to trade speed for any scry-trigger density they can find.
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 |
World Map is legal everywhere but barely registers outside Commander, where the one-game-at-a-time structure forgives slow payoffs and decks without green need colorless ramp options. In competitive formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — four turns of setup for a tapped basic is unplayable; any of those formats demand land acceleration in turns one or two at most. Pauper is the only 60-card format worth a second look, purely because the card pool at common is shallow and budget constraint is real, but even there it rarely makes cuts. Commander is its home: 100-card variance, frequent mana-hungry midrange pacing, and the prevalence of scry-synergy commanders make World Map a functional, if slow, inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, World Map is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for what it does, which is appropriate. It won't appreciate; it's widely printed and has no competitive demand propping up the price, so treat it as a freely available slot-filler rather than anything to acquire speculatively.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Wandering Minstrel
- Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.