Joint Exploration
Joint Exploration: Instant, Dominaria United. Kicker G. Scry 2, then draw a card. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria United (DMU)
- Released
- 2022-09-09
- Collector number
- 56
- Artist
- Zezhou Chen
- Commander rank
- 4,837 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Kicker, Scry
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About Joint Exploration
Joint Exploration is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue and green instant from Dominaria United (DMU), an expansion set released in September 2022. It is collector number 56 in that set, with art by Zezhou Chen. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Dominaria United is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.28 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.)
Scry 2, then draw a card. If this spell was kicked, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
The Tolarians had the maps, but only the Yavimayans knew how to read them.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.28 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Joint Exploration by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Joint Exploration, newest first.
- If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
- If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
- The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
- If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
- If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
- To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
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