Do multiple Explorations allow me to play multiple lands?

Asked by Panda213 11 years ago

Can I play a forest and then use that to play Exploration , play the additional land and then play another Exploration to be able to play another land or does it not work like that? Thanks :)

Sam_I_am says... Accepted answer #1

Yes, they do stack, but when you play the extra lands, you have to decide which Exploration you're using to play that land

10/4/2004: You have to say when you put the land out that it is the one you get because of Exploration. If you put out a Forest while Exploration is in on the battlefield, then Exploration leaves the battlefield (by being destroyed or something), you can't put out another Forest claiming that the first one was due to Exploration unless you said so when you played that Forest.

April 18, 2014 2:22 p.m.

Panda213 says... #2

Nice, I read that but wasn't sure so I asked. Thanks for the conformation :)

April 18, 2014 2:35 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #3

I'm surprised the quoted rulings note is still in Gatherer, because the rules about extra land plays don't work that way anymore. Under the current rules you wouldn't be able to play another Forest in that situation regardless of what happened earlier in the turn.

To determine whether or not you can play a land, you compare the current number of land plays you have available to the number of lands you've already played this turn. Additional land plays stack up on each other.

April 18, 2014 2:57 p.m.

PrimeEpoch says... #4

Remember that you can always check gatherer for card rulings :)

April 18, 2014 2:58 p.m.

Matsi883 says... #5

Rhadamanthus, are you going to write Wizards on that?

April 18, 2014 3:36 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #6

Sure, I'll send a message through the feedback form. Thanks for reminding me.

April 18, 2014 7:52 p.m.

Matsi883 says... #7

They also gave the example in the rules change of blinking Exploration , so that makes this doubly surprising. If it was something like Oracle of Mul Daya (also not fixed), I wouldn't be as surprised. Those happen to be the only two, by the way. But they name it in the explanation...

April 18, 2014 8:21 p.m.