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Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Amalia Benavides Aguirre Price

4 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2023

Cheapest $0.39
Median $1.21
Highest $2.25
EDHREC Rank #4,175

Amalia Benavides Aguirre has been printed 4 times across 2 sets, first in 2023. Right now the cheapest printing is The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #221 at $0.39, while the most expensive is The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #221s at $2.25 — about 6× more. The median across 4 priced printings is $1.21. Reprint risk: LOW — Reprinted 4x historically, most recently in 2023 -- no dedicated reprint sets or recent activity.

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Every Amalia Benavides Aguirre Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #221 (R) Cheapest 2023 $0.39 $0.32
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #299 (R) 2023 $1.03 $0.75
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #221p (R) 2023 $1.40 $0.40
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #221s (R) Foil 2023 $2.25 $1.15 foil

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Oracle Text
Legendary Creature — Vampire Scout
Ward—Pay 3 life.

Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, 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.)
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Legal In
Standard Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Brawl Penny Dreadful

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 4 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

10 Precedents

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.)

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.

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.

The instruction for Amalia Benavides Aguirre to explore and the effect that occurs if Amalia Benavides Aguirre's power is exactly 20 are all part of the same ability. Players do not get to chance to respond to the ability after knowing the result of the explore.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre's power is checked only once, as the triggered ability resolves. If it is no longer on the battlefield at that point, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield.

If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.

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.

If multiple creatures with lifelink you control deal combat damage at the same time, the damage dealt by each of those creatures is a separate life-gaining event and Amalia Benavides Aguirre's ability will trigger that many times.

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.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre's power must be exactly 20 during the resolution of its last ability after it finishes exploring in order to destroy all other creatures. If it's more or less than 20, nothing is destroyed.