Excava, the Risen Past
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 3
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #2 (mythic)
- Price
- $0.55 USD
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.)
Excava, the Risen Past has 1 printing, first in Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). EDHREC ranks it #10,489 among Commander cards. It appears most in Quintorius, History Chaser decks (8,234 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Excava, the Risen Past
- Lorehold Spirit - Secrets of Strixhaven, led by Quintorius, History Chaser
Commanders that run Excava, the Risen Past most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Quintorius, History Chaser: 8,234 decks
- Shadowfax, Lord of Horses: 462 decks
- Jandor, Fortuned Traveler: 223 decks
- Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch: 90 decks
- Quintorius, Loremaster: 65 decks
- Quintorius, Field Historian: 40 decks
- Banon, the Returners' Leader: 12 decks
- Caparocti Sunborn
Often played with Excava, the Risen Past
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- : 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.
- : An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
- : 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.