Perilous Forays
Ravnica: City of Guilds 176 • uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Collector number
- 176
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana green mana green mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Chris Dien
- Market price
- $2.94
What it does
1 generic mana, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
"This is the place? This map has got to be wrong . . . ."— Svania Trul, wayfinder novice, last words
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Perilous Forays is a green enchantment card released in the 2005 Magic: The Gathering set Ravnica: City of Guilds. Designed for the Golgari Swarm, the black and green guild of the plane of Ravnica, it embodies the guild's core mechanic of recycling death into growth. The card allows players to sacrifice creatures to search their library for lands, mechanically representing the Golgari philosophy of decay fueling new development.
The card was illustrated by Matt Cavotta, a prolific artist who contributed a vast amount of visual world-building to the game during this era. Cavotta's illustration depicts a subterranean, fungal landscape typical of the Golgari's domain beneath the city streets, emphasizing the damp and necrotic aesthetic of the guild. Upon its release, the card was received as a niche but effective tool for casual and Commander formats, where its ability to manipulate land counts and trigger death-related effects proved useful for synergy-heavy deck archetypes.
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