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Hit the Mother Lode

First printed in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023)

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Hit the Mother Lode

Sorcery

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Illustrated by
Diego Gisbert

Legality

Rulings (10)

  • Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.
  • When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.
  • If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.
  • If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.
  • You won't create any Treasure tokens until you finish discovering. For example, if the card you discover has "As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact," you can't sacrifice one of the Treasures from Hit the Mother Lode to pay that additional cost.
  • If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.
  • If the discovered card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
  • You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
  • The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Combos

29 combos, the most popular first:

See all 29 on Commander Spellbook

Commander In 8 of 6520 decks (0.1%), most in Narset, Enlightened Master

Share of decks
0.1%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.2% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.1% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.0% 2026-09-21: 0.3% 2026-09-28: 0.2% 2026-10-05: 0.2% 2026-10-12: 0.1% 2026-10-19: 0.0% 2026-10-26: 0.3%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
8
8 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
20%
2 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Narset, Enlightened Master 0.1% 17%
Lathliss, Dragon Queen 0.1% 100%
The Infamous Cruelclaw 0.1% 75%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Sol Ring75%0.8
Swiftfoot Boots63%40.1
Arcane Signet63%1.0
Count on Luck50%826.9
The Elder Dragon War50%826.9
Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant50%826.9
Terror of Mount Velus50%826.9
Magmaquake50%826.9
Shivan Devastator50%826.9
Hazoret's Monument50%826.9

Best win rate

DeckRecord
The Infamous Cruelclaw
Aspen Mitchell-Saint Aubin in IDubz Seasonal Series 4 Season 2
1-4
20%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

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