Fanatical Offering

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Fanatical Offering: Instant, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. On Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{B}
Mana value
2
Type
Instant
Colour identity
Black (B)
Rarity
Common
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Released
2023-11-17
Collector number
105
Artist
Raluca Marinescu
Commander rank
4,444 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Explore

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About Fanatical Offering

Fanatical Offering is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common black instant from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), an expansion set released in November 2023. It is collector number 105 in that set, with art by Raluca Marinescu. It costs {1}{B} (one generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.57 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.

Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

The gateway could be opened only by the spilling of innocent blood. Vito did not hesitate.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.57 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Fanatical Offering by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Fanatical Offering, newest first.

  • In some unusual cases, noncreature permanents may explore. For example, if the creature card returned by Defossilize is somehow not a creature once it's on the battlefield, it can still explore. You'll take all the same actions, and you may end up putting a +1/+1 counter on the permanent. (Note that some effects target a creature, and those effects would still require a legal target to have it explore.)
  • If an ability instructs a creature to explore, its controller reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they'll put it into their hand. Otherwise, they'll put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then choose to either leave that card on top of their library or put it into their graveyard.
  • If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to explore but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still explores. If you reveal a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything, but you may put the revealed card into your graveyard. Effects that trigger "whenever a creature explores" trigger as appropriate.
  • Some spells or abilities might cause a creature to explore multiple times in a row. If you reveal a nonland card when a creature explores and leave it on top of your library, then the creature explores again immediately afterwards, you'll reveal the same card again.
  • If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
  • Once an ability that causes a creature to explore begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the exploring creature after you reveal a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
  • Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."

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