Excava, the Risen Past

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) #2 · Mythic · Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse

Mana cost: {2}{R}{W}

Flying, haste
Whenever Excava attacks, return up to one target artifact, creature, or non-Aura enchantment card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It's a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Power/toughness 3/3 · Illustrated by Ilse Gort · Released April 24, 2026

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.19 USD (24.7%) to $0.58 USD; low $0.53 USD, high $0.77 USD.

Printings

  1. Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #2 (this printing) · Mythic · 2026 · $0.58 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2026-03-20 · wotc — If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
  2. 2026-03-20 · wotc — An Equipment that's also a creature can't be attached to anything. You can activate its equip ability, but it won't become attached.
  3. 2026-03-20 · wotc — An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
  4. 2026-03-20 · wotc — If another effect causes one of the returned permanents to become a creature and sets its base power and toughness as it does so, that creature will have that power and toughness; it won't be 1/1. However, a Vehicle returned this way will remain a 1/1 if you crew it, and a Spacecraft returned this way will remain a 1/1 even if enough charge counters are placed on it for it to become a creature.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Quintorius, History Chaser · in 76% of 49 decks

All cards in Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)