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"Find me cards equivalent to: Meticulous Excavation"

Equivalent cards to Meticulous Excavation (White, Enchantment, permanent bounce):
1. Learl, the Enlightened — Has a similar effect for blinking permanents.
2. Umbilicus — Forces each player to return a nonland permanent to their hand, upkeep trigger. (Not only white.)
3. Felidar Retreat — Not exactly the same, but provides value and white interactions with permanents.
4. Erratic Portal — Artifact, but close in function.


Reason: White has few permanent bounce enchantments; most similar involve flicker or returning creatures, not any permanent. Meticulous Excavation is unique for its flexibility on permanents.

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Erratic Portal

Felidar Retreat

Meticulous Excavation

Umbilicus

Erratic Portal #222 Artifact

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    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    , : Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays .

    Felidar Retreat #2378 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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    Cat Beast

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  • Felidar Retreat's second mode affects only creatures you control at the time the ability resolves, including creatures you control but that for some reason didn't get a +1/+1 counter. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't gain vigilance or get a +1/+1 counter.
  • A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
  • A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
  • Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them   on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).

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    Tcgplayer 7.02 USD / 5.06 USD
    Manapool 6.71 USD / 8.11 USD
    Cardkingdom 7.49 USD
    Cardmarket 5.79 EUR / 5.71 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token. • Put a +1/+1counteron each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

    Meticulous Excavation #16 Enchantment

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  • Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Defabricate's second mode) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Scatter Ray) will not.
  • At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Defabricate that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.
  • If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Net might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.
  • If the target permanent has unearth and was put onto the battlefield using its unearth ability, this effect can still exile it and return it to its owner's hand.
  • If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.
  • Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

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    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.19 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.3 USD 0.17 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    : Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand. If it has unearth, instead exile it, then return that card to its owner's hand. Activate only during your turn.

    Umbilicus #390 Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • The player makes all choices as the triggered ability resolves. They permanent they choose to return to its owner’s hand, if any, isn’t targeted by the ability.

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    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.26 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD / 0.38 USD
    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR / 0.4 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay 2 life. If they don't, they return a permanent they control to its owner's hand.