Subterranean Schooner
Subterranean Schooner: Artifact - Vehicle, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Artifact - Vehicle
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 3/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 80
- Artist
- Svetlin Velinov
- Commander rank
- 8,227 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Crew, Explore
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About Subterranean Schooner
Subterranean Schooner is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue artifact from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), an expansion set released in November 2023. It is collector number 80 in that set, with art by Svetlin Velinov. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its power and toughness are 3/4. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.32 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Whenever this Vehicle attacks, target creature that crewed it this turn explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Crew 1
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.32 (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 Subterranean Schooner by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Subterranean Schooner
Subterranean Schooner has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) #365 | Rare | 2023 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI) #80p | Rare | 2023 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI) #80s | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Subterranean Schooner, newest first.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
- 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.
Similar cards
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