Brazen Buccaneers is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Haste When this creature enters, 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
How it works : Brazen Buccaneers
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.)
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
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 you control explores" trigger if appropriate.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Doomsday + Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Conspicuous Snoop
- 1Cast Doomsday by paying
, searching your library and graveyard for Torch Courier, Kiki-Jiki, Mogg Fanatic, Brazen Buccaneers and Conspicuous Snoop, exiling all other cards from your graveyard and library, and then placing the remaining cards on top of your library in the order previously listed and losing half your life, rounded up. - 2Activate Grenzo by paying
, putting Conspicuous Snoop into your graveyard and then onto the battlefield. - 3Cast Torch Courier from the top of your library by paying
. - 4Activate Torch Courier by sacrificing it, giving Conspicuous Snoop haste until end of turn.
- 5Activate Conspicuous Snoop using Kiki-Jiki's ability by tapping it, creating a token copy of Conspicuous Snoop with haste.
- 6Repeat step 5 with the new Conspicuous Snoop token an arbitrarily large amount of times.
- 7Activate Grenzo by paying , putting Brazen Buccaneers into your graveyard and then onto the battlefield.
- 8Brazen Buccaneers enters the battlefield, revealing Kiki-Jiki, putting a +1/+1 counter on Brazen Buccaneers and putting Kiki-Jiki into your graveyard.
Doomsday + Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Conspicuous Snoop
- 1Cast Doomsday by paying , searching your library and graveyard for Torch Courier, Kiki-Jiki, Sling-Gang Lieutenant, Brazen Buccaneers and Conspicuous Snoop, exiling all other cards from your graveyard and library, and then placing the remaining cards on top of your library in the order previously listed and losing half your life, rounded up.
- 2Activate Grenzo by paying , putting Conspicuous Snoop into your graveyard and then onto the battlefield.
- 3Cast Torch Courier from the top of your library by paying .
- 4Activate Torch Courier by sacrificing it, giving Conspicuous Snoop haste until end of turn.
- 5Activate Conspicuous Snoop using Kiki-Jiki's ability by tapping it, creating a token copy of Conspicuous Snoop with haste.
- 6Repeat step 5 with the new Conspicuous Snoop token an arbitrarily large amount of times.
- 7Activate Grenzo by paying , putting Brazen Buccaneers into your graveyard and then onto the battlefield.
- 8Brazen Buccaneers enters the battlefield, revealing Kiki-Jiki, putting a +1/+1 counter on Brazen Buccaneers and putting Kiki-Jiki into your graveyard.
Doomsday + Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Conspicuous Snoop
- 1Cast Doomsday by paying , searching your library and graveyard for Torch Courier, Kiki-Jiki, Goblin Firestarter, Brazen Buccaneers and Conspicuous Snoop, exiling all other cards from your graveyard and library, and then placing the remaining cards on top of your library in the order previously listed and losing half your life, rounded up.
- 2Activate Grenzo by paying , putting Conspicuous Snoop into your graveyard and then onto the battlefield.
- 3Cast Torch Courier from the top of your library by paying .
- 4Activate Torch Courier by sacrificing it, giving Conspicuous Snoop haste until end of turn.
- 5Activate Conspicuous Snoop using Kiki-Jiki's ability by tapping it, creating a token copy of Conspicuous Snoop with haste.
- 6Repeat step 5 with the new Conspicuous Snoop token an arbitrarily large amount of times.
- 7Activate Grenzo by paying , putting Brazen Buccaneers into your graveyard and then onto the battlefield.
- 8Brazen Buccaneers enters the battlefield, revealing Kiki-Jiki, putting a +1/+1 counter on Brazen Buccaneers and putting Kiki-Jiki into your graveyard.
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