Treasure Cruise 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
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for.) Draw three cards.
Complete guide
Treasure Cruise is a powerful sorcery that allows players to draw three cards for a potentially massive discount. By utilizing the Delve mechanic, you can turn your used resources in the graveyard into raw card advantage. It has become a staple in many formats where filling the graveyard is easy and efficient.
How Delve Works
Delve is a static ability that functions while the spell is on the stack. For every card you exile from your graveyard as you pay for the spell, the generic mana cost is reduced by one. For Treasure Cruise, you can exile up to seven cards to pay for the generic portion of its cost, meaning you can cast it for as little as a single blue mana.
Resolution Step-by-Step
First, you announce Treasure Cruise and move it to the stack. Second, you choose how many cards to exile from your graveyard to pay for the generic mana. Third, you pay the remaining mana (at least one blue). Once the spell resolves, you simply draw three cards and move Treasure Cruise to your graveyard.
Mana Value and Restrictions
A common mistake is assuming Delve changes the spell's mana value. Treasure Cruise always has a mana value of 8, regardless of how much mana you actually spent. Additionally, you cannot exile more cards than there are generic mana requirements; you can never 'overpay' with Delve to exile your entire graveyard unless the total cost has been increased by another effect.
Strategic Timing
Because Treasure Cruise is a sorcery, you can only cast it during your main phase when the stack is empty. It is best used after you have naturally filled your graveyard with fetch lands, cheap cantrips, or discarded cards, allowing you to refuel your hand without tapping out completely.
Interaction examples
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, RebornIf you have Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn in your hand and an effect asks you to reveal a card with the highest mana value, Treasure Cruise is an excellent choice. Even if you only paid one blue mana to cast it, its mana value remains 8. This makes it much larger than most other draw spells.
All Is DustWhile Treasure Cruise is a blue spell, it doesn't stay on the battlefield. If an opponent casts All Is Dust, they are targeting colored permanents. Since Treasure Cruise is a sorcery that goes to the graveyard after drawing you three cards, it helps you find the lands and colorless threats you need to recover after all your colored permanents are sacrificed.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Treasure Cruise
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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