Glowcap Lantern
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact — Equipment
Oracle Text:
Equipped creature has "You may look at the top card of your library any time" and "Whenever this creature attacks, it 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.)
Equip {2}
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price ( USD): $0.10
USD: $0.10 · EUR: €0.09
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Character Background
Glowcap Lantern is a cheap green equipment that thematically fits The Lost Caverns by letting an explorer peer into the tunnel’s secrets and mechanically rewards aggression with incremental value. Casting for G and equipping for 2 favors tempo/value strategies: attach it to an evasive or early attacker and every attack either draws a land or adds a +1/+1 counter, turning ordinary combat into card advantage and long-term snowballing. It pairs especially well with +1/+1-counter synergies like Hardened Scales or Rishkar-style payoff creatures, and with graveyard/delve payoffs because failed explores can seed useful cards into the yard. Build around library manipulation — Sylvan Library, scry and top-deck tutors — to stack desirable outcomes, and prioritize creatures that attack reliably (haste or evasion) so the trigger fires each turn. In short, Glowcap Lantern is a low-cost value engine that bolsters aggressive-midrange decks, smoothing mana while growing threats and enabling both counters- and graveyard-based game plans.
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