

Once all six photos are collected, the experts-in-training are rewarded with a page for the Arts & Crafts book. The games, however, do not seem complex enough to hold the attention of children older than 5 or 6, though the package says the title is for 4 and older. In the Temperate Forest, for example, echolocation is taught by guiding a bat in the darkness while it hunts prey.

(For instance, a lion would be a carnivore and a mammal.)ĭuring the journey, children also will encounter arcade games designed to teach animal-kingdom concepts. In addition, they must name characteristics and families or classes of the animals to complete their contest sheets. When the explorers arrive in one of the habitats, they receive a contest sheet displaying clues of six animals they must photograph.

Note: Pioneer-legal cards from these sets will become legal in Explorer should they be released in a future digital set on MTG Arena.In this adventure game, globetrotters visit four habitats: the Temperate Forest, Savanna Grasslands, Tide Pools and Tropical Rain Forest, while cruising around in the All-Over-Rover, which acts as the game's main interface.Īs children explore each area, they must identify and photograph dozens of wild animals as part of their goal - to become a wildlife expert by winning the Animal Habitat Magazine contest.Īlong the way, they learn animal facts, such as that some sharks shed 30,000 teeth in a lifetime, a lion's roar can be heard 5 miles away, the short-eared owl can turn its head 180 degrees, and so on.

With the exception of basic lands (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forests), your combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card. Explorer is managed just like a tabletop format - cards are not subject to either rebalancing or suspensions.Cards that only exist digitally are excluded from Explorer.Up to seven cards ( best-of-one) or fifteen cards ( best-of-three) in your sideboard.Explorer is a new digital experience on MTG Arena – a true-to-paper, non-rotating format featuring all cards legal in the Pioneer format that appear on Arena.
