Excavation Explosion
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- The Brothers' War #132 (common)
- Price
- $0.16 USD
Excavation Explosion deals 3 damage to any target. Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
Excavation Explosion has 1 printing, first in The Brothers' War (2022). EDHREC ranks it #20,479 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mishra, Excavation Prodigy decks (7 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Excavation Explosion most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mishra, Excavation Prodigy: 7 decks
- Marwyn, the Clearcutter: 2 decks
- Pia, Determined Rebuilder: 2 decks
- Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat: 1 decks
- Pia Nalaar
Often played with Excavation Explosion
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Powerstone tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one has the artifact subtype "Powerstone" and the ability "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell."
- : Although all the cards in The Brothers' War that create Powerstone tokens create a tapped Powerstone token, entering the battlefield tapped isn't part of the token's definition. Notably, if you create a token that is a copy of a Powerstone token, the token copy won't enter the battlefield tapped.
- : You can use the {C} added by a Powerstone token on anything that isn't a nonartifact spell. This includes paying costs to activate abilities of both artifact and nonartifact permanents, paying ward costs, and so on.