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◇ Catalog #2

Excava, the Risen Past

soc·#2·mythic·borderless

Illus. Ilse Gort

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Apr '26

3 mo ago

Value

$0.36+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.37 · low $0.34

NM$0.36

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.33–$0.38modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $5.39low $0.36range 1397.2%n 83

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #13,332 · Fringe play

Variants

Borderless$0.36

Gameplay

Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse

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.)

3/3

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDHnot legal

Rulings · 4

2026-03-20wotc

An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.

2026-03-20wotc

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.

2026-03-20wotc

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

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.36. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.36 and $5.39 across 83 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SOC — the lineup includes Borderless alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #2 of *Secrets of Strixhaven Commander*, the set that shipped alongside the April 2026 Secrets of Strixhaven Commander release.

Card type: Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse, color identity red/white, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {2}{R}{W} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Haste.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Brawl, and Historic.

EDHrec ranks this card #13,332 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Ilse Gort. Rarix catalogs 224 other cards credited to this artist.