gatherer logo
Fanatical Offering

Card Name

Fanatical Offering

Mana Cost

1

Type

Instant

Rarity

Common

rules 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
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Flavor Text

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

Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage

Rulings

(11/10/2023)
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.
(11/10/2023)
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.
(11/10/2023)
If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
(11/10/2023)
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.
(11/10/2023)
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.
(11/10/2023)
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.)
(11/10/2023)
Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability "
1
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."