Valakut Exploration

Enchantment

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card as long as it remains exiled.

At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with Valakut Exploration, put them into their owner's graveyard, then Valakut Exploration deals that much damage to each opponent.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

SufferFromEDHD on BOMBnath

3 weeks ago

See that Ghost Town no Undiscovered Paradise?

Valakut Exploration damage coming from all directions or dig for answers

ChurchOfJorts on YEEHAW: Treasure Boogaloo

3 months ago

2/11/25 Updates

Swaps

• Swamp for Witch's Cottage
• Boggart Trawler  ^Flip for Hellkite Tyrant
• Throes of Chaos for Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
• Exotic Orchard for Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• Izzet Chemister for Tor Wauki the Younger
• Geothermal Bog for Foreboding Ruins
• Urborg Volcano for Tainted Peak
• Valakut Exploration for Count on Luck
• Cinder Barrens for Command Beacon

Flarhoon13 on Gay Kings can win through love

5 months ago

Having completed my quest to play all 52 of my decks, I decided to try getting a win with all of my decks

Sep 27

Gay Kings can win through love... And they did. Ramped and got beaten down by Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender before stabilizing with a Blazing Archon. Jesse's -2 of Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge made us each lose about 18 life, killing Josh (Ginger). My Kraum, Ludevic's Opus *f-etch* attacked wearing Empyrial Armor. Will attacked Jesse for 30 and I used Reins of Power to finish him with Will's Selesnya fatties. Will was at six and Valakut Exploration plus Psychosis Crawler was enough to finish him, after a Constant Mists saved my life, raising my losers' record to 7-15

sdidonato on Ib Halfheart, Goblin Sac-tician [PRIMER]

9 months ago

[enter link description here]You've had Valakut Exploration as a card in your list sometime earlier this year and I agreed when you removed it from the 99 list, however I'm going to try out Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest from Bloomburrow as it gives a better effect (exiling more cards) and deals twice as much out of the gate. We don't need to rely on landfall.

Food for thought.

longmuiryan on Kool-Aid Man if He Knew Mitosis

1 year ago

As a deck that seeks to make a land drop every turn (if not more), I would consider adding more card draw/card advantage. Cards like Vorinclex  ^Flip, Valakut Exploration, and Rishkar's Expertise are all good inclusions IMO. I would consider removing cards like Sparkspitter and Lightning Mare

tindolos on Paradox Power - Upgrade

1 year ago

Initial Changes

Out

• Lunar Hatchling
• Frost Fair Lure Fish
• Karvanista, Loyal Lupari
• The Fugitive Doctor
• Jenny Flint
• Madame Vastra
• Graham O'Brien
• Bill Potts
• Start the TARDIS
• Flatline
• Truth or Consequences
• River Song
• Heaven Sent
• Psychic Paper
• Fugitive of the Judoon
• Become the Pilot
• Twice Upon a Time
• Thijarian Witness
• Dan Lewis
• Strax, Sontaran Nurse
• Confession Dial
• Ponder
• Preordain
• Talisman of Curiosity
• Talisman of Impulse
• Cursed Mirror
• Sonic Screwdriver
• Temple of Abandon
• Temple of Mystery
• Temple of Epiphany
• Gallifrey Council Chamber
• Temple of the False God

In

• Laelia, the Blade Reforged
• Caves of Chaos Adventurer
• Kami of Celebration
• Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
• Plargg and Nassari
• Etali, Primal Storm
• Jacob Hauken, Inspector  ^Flip
• Durnan of the Yawning Portal
• Ignite the Future
• Valakut Exploration
• Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• Maelstrom Wanderer
• Ravenform
• Delayed Blast Fireball
• Tlincalli Hunter
• You Find Some Prisoners
• The Parting of the Ways
• Wild-Magic Sorcerer
• Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
• Nalfeshnee
• Kami of Whispered Hopes
• Incubation Druid
• Gyre Sage
• Three Visits
• Nature's Lore
• Rampant Growth
• Kodama's Reach
• Wooded Ridgeline
• Tangled Islet
• Highland Forest
• Hinterland Harbor
• Sulfur Falls

keizerbuns on Gate Fall

2 years ago

Neat deck, Landfall and Gates seem to go hand in hand very well! I can't think of that many great landfall or gate cards that you don't already have in here, but there are still a few that come to mind that might be worth looking into.

Dryad of the Ilysian Grove is an amazing mana fixer/mana ramper and I feel like it would be a perfect fit in this deck. Likewise, Chromatic Lantern is a great mana fixer too, but it doesn't offer any more than that so it might not be that great, but I think it's still worth considering.

Sakura-Tribe Scout is another great 1-drop mana-ramper that you could add in alongside Burgeoning and Exploration for additional early-game ramp.

A personal favorite landfall card of mine is Valakut Exploration. With all of the additional land drops you're getting per turn, Valakut can pop off hard and let you dig deep into your deck each turn.

Last, if you decide to add either Dryad of the Ilysian Grove or Chromatic Lantern, then you could also add Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle as an additional win-con for your deck.

Hopefully this was helpful!

shock7123 on Omnath Whole Lotta Lands

2 years ago

Finally, another 4c Omnath player!

Omnath, Locus of Creation is a fun commander that gives you access to the grand majority of all the landfall effects to ever come out in Magic. I will say, though, there are a few things you could add if you wanted to make this deck more competitive. Not sure if that was your plan or not, but here are some suggestions I would make:

Geode Rager can help keep your opponents off your back and swinging at each other, making it easier for you to win. As long as you have a couple landfall token generators out, it isn't too hard to win in a 1v1 situation with this commander.

Felidar Retreat + Kodama of the East Tree + Simic Growth Chamber is a combo that allows you to win the game with literal infinite landfall triggers and infinite tokens being created. You can sub out Simic Growth Chamber for any of the Ravnica bounce lands (of which you have access to 7 total in your colors, including Guildless Commons.) You can also swap out Felidar Retreat for any landfall token generator like Zendikar's Roil, Rampaging Baloths, heck, even Scute Swarm will work. You just need to create a token of some kind whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control.

Valakut Exploration is a great way to give yourself some temporary card advantage while also pinging your opponents for whatever you don't end up casting. Careful with this card, though, as if you don't cast whatever is exiled with it, you don't get it back.

Retreat to Coralhelm can let you tap down creatures you don't want attacking you or give you card selection via a ton of scry effects.

Nissa, Voice of Zendikar is a solid 3-drop walker that lets you get some chump blockers out early, pump any tokens you control, or gain a bunch of life and draw a bunch of cards.

Ancient Greenwarden is a solid effect. It lets you get your fetch lands out of your graveyard to find another land, easy two landfall triggers per turn with that. It also acts as a Panharmonicon for landfall, which is amazing in this deck. With just this, your commander, and a Myriad Landscape or Fabled Passage, you can gain 8 life and add 8 mana for free to your mana pool each turn.

Azusa, Lost but Seeking makes it so that you can consistently get three landfall triggers per turn with just a Ravnica bounce land in your hand. You may not grow the amount of lands in your deck, but it does allow you to get that 4 damage trigger off from your commander consistently.

Tireless Tracker and Tireless Provisioner are the GOAT in a landfall deck. All the treasures, food, or clues you could ever hope for.

Trench Behemoth is a solid value engine that lets you return lands to your hand to protect itself while also forcing a creature to attack whenever you get a landfall trigger. If you have enough tokens, you can take out their big threats if they decide to swing at you with it.

I love my Omnath deck, as I've had it since I pulled a foil version of him from a Zendikar Rising prerelease box. If you want other suggestions, I'm happy to help!