Icetill Explorer — Magic: The Gathering card

Icetill Explorer

{2}{G}{G}
Creature — Insect Scout

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, mill a card.

*"Come! Join me in the sun!"*

Power/Toughness: 2/4

Set Edge of Eternities
Rarity Rare
Mana Value 4
Artist Warren Mahy
Collector # 192
Scryfall

Why Play Icetill Explorer

Four mana gets you a powerful engine that accelerates your mana while filling your graveyard with resources. The ability to play lands from your graveyard creates incredible late-game inevitability, turning every fetch land activation into repeatable value. Landfall decks and graveyard-based strategies benefit most from the consistent mill trigger, while ramp decks appreciate the extra land drop each turn.

Format Notes

Commander represents the strongest home for Icetill Explorer, where the longer games and higher life totals reward its incremental advantage engine. The card sees fringe play in Pioneer and Modern graveyard decks that can leverage the mill ability, though its four-mana cost competes with other powerful threats. Standard applications depend heavily on the available landfall payoffs and graveyard synergies in the current card pool.

Combos & Synergies

Crucible of Worlds creates redundancy for the graveyard land recursion effect, while fetch lands like Windswept Heath generate multiple landfall triggers per activation. Life from the Loam becomes a powerful draw engine when combined with the additional land drops, creating a loop of card advantage and board development. The mill ability feeds delve spells and flashback cards, making every land drop a potential source of spell cost reduction or graveyard value.

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Creature Standard Modern Pioneer