Excava, the Risen Past
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.)
Combos with Excava, the Risen Past
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Second Chance Solemnity Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Solemnity Breath of Fury Infinite
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite combat damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite death triggers
- Solemnity Breath of Fury Anger Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite combat damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-03-20
If a card in a graveyard has X in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- 2026-03-20
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.
- 2026-03-20
An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
- 2026-03-20
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Excava, the Risen Past, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Lord Zuko | 2 | 14 | 28.6% |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 2 decks
Every version of Excava, the Risen Past
1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.57
- Foil
- $0.31
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Excava, the Risen Past — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
