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"Find me cards equivalent to: Meticulous Excavation"

Closest equivalents in white:
1. Crystal Shard (artifact, not enchantment, but similar effect: {3}, {U} or {1}, tap: Return target creature to owner's hand)
2. Erratic Portal (artifact: {1}, {1}, tap: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1})
3. Stormfront Riders (creature: Returns creatures you control to hand when it enters)
4. Whitemane Lion (creature, instant return itself to hand)

Actual white enchantments with similar effects are rare. Nothing matches Meticulous Excavation exactly, especially its interaction with unearth. Closest is Oromancer's Guile (returns itself if bounced, but not others).


Reason: White enchantments rarely bounce permanents; most effects are found on artifacts or creatures.

Found Cards

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Crystal Shard

Erratic Portal

Meticulous Excavation

Stormfront Riders

Whitemane Lion

Crystal Shard #MRD-159 Artifact

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • You can pay either of the two costs (but not both at the same time) to activate the ability.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.58 EUR
    Manapool 1.31 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.58 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

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

    Erratic Portal #222 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • No entries

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    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 creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays .

    Meticulous Excavation #16 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • 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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.17 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.13 USD / 0.33 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.79 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.4 EUR 0.18 EUR

    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.

    Stormfront Riders #46 Creature — Human Soldier

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 4/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Soldier
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Soldier

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • A token's owner is the player who created it.
  • A token you own that's returned to your hand moves to your hand before it ceases to exist. This will cause the last ability of Stormfront Riders to trigger.
  • If Stormfront Riders and another creature are returned to your hand at the same time, its last ability triggers for each of them.
  • If you control only one creature as the triggered ability resolves, you return it to its owner's hand.
  • The ability of Stormfront Riders doesn't target any creatures. Because of this, no player may take action between the time you choose the creature to return and the time you return it.
  • You may return Stormfront Riders itself to its owner's hand as its triggered ability resolves. If you don't control two other creatures, you must return it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.34 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.23 EUR 0.1 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD / 0.33 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying When this creature enters, return two creatures you control to their owner's hand. Whenever this creature or another creature is returned to your hand from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

    Whitemane Lion #50 Creature — Cat

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Cat
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flash

    Rules

  • Whitemane Lion's ability doesn't target any creature, therefore no player may take actions between the time you choose the creature to return and the time you return it.
  • You may return Whitemane Lion itself to its owner's hand as its triggered ability resolves. If you don't control any other creature, you must return it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.41 USD 0.31 USD
    Manapool / 0.42 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.26 EUR / 0.29 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flash When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.