Map

For actual maps, see :Category:Maps.

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Map
Artifact Type
(Subtype for artifact cards)
Introduced	The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Last used	Alchemy: Ixalan
Rules	, , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.
Scryfall Statistics
0 cards
13 token creation cards 7.7% 7.7% 46.2% 7.7% 15.4% 15.4%
128 artworks 22.7% 10.9% 21.9% 7% 9.4% 13.3% 14.8%

Map is a predefined token introduced in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan.

Description

Map tokens have “, , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery. (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.)."

Map-flavored cards without the type

Several older artifacts were flavored as Maps, but don't have the Map type.

• Archaeomancer's Map
• Dungeon Map
• Expedition Map
• Park Map
• Renegade Map
• Treasure Map (notably reprinted in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
• World Map

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 6, 2025—Final Fantasy)

Map

A Map token is a colorless Map artifact token with “{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.” See rule 701.44, “Explore.” For more information about predefined tokens, see rule 110.10.

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 6, 2025—Final Fantasy)

• 111.10. Some effects instruct a player to create a predefined token. These effects use the definition below to determine the characteristics the token is created with. The effect that creates a predefined token may also modify or add to the predefined characteristics.

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 6, 2025—Final Fantasy)

• 111.10s A Map token is a colorless Map artifact token with “{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.” See rule 701.44, “Explore.”

Rulings

• Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability ", , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."

Map tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Map	Colorless	Artifact — Map		, , Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.	Brackish Blunder Cartographer's Companion Fanatical Offering Fblthp: Completely, Utterly, Totally Lost Get Lost Journey On Landlore Navigator Restless Anchorage Sentinel of the Nameless City Spyglass Siren Storm Fleet Negotiator Topography Tracker Waterwind Scout Worldwalker Helm