Excava, the Risen Past (SOC #2)
Excava, the Risen Past is a mythic printing from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC #2), a Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse. Illustrated by Ilse Gort.
Card text
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.)
Details
| Mana cost | {2}{R}{W} |
|---|---|
| Type | Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse |
| Power / Toughness | 3 / 3 |
| Rarity | Mythic |
| Set | Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) |
| Collector number | 2 |
| Artist | Ilse Gort |
| Released | 2026-04-24 |
Current price
As of 2026-10-19, Scryfall listed this printing at non-foil $0.58, foil $0.35 (USD). Prices change constantly, so check the live price before buying.
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Legality
| Standard | Not legal |
|---|---|
| Future Standard | Not legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Pioneer | Not legal |
| Modern | Not legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Pauper | Not legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Not legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Not legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Competitive Brawl | Legal |
| Alchemy | Not legal |
| Pauper Commander | Not legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Old School | Not legal |
| Premodern | Not legal |
| PrEDH | Not legal |
| TLR | Not legal |
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Rulings
- March 20, 2026 — If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- March 20, 2026 — An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
- March 20, 2026 — 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.
- March 20, 2026 — 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.
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