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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Meticulous Excavation

Equivalent white cards to Meticulous Excavation (lets you return a permanent to your hand for value):
1. Salvager of Secrets (blue, returns an instant/sorcery from graveyard, similar recursion concept)
2. Whitemane Lion (white, self-bounces when it enters the battlefield)
3. Emancipation Angel (white, returns a permanent you control to your hand when it enters)
4. Kor Skyfisher (white, returns a permanent you control to your hand on entry)


Reason: These cards enable repeating value by returning your own permanents to your hand, similar to Meticulous Excavation.

Results:

Emancipation Angel #15 Creature — Angel

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: 3/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Angel
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • For Emancipation Angel’s triggered ability, the permanent to return is chosen as the ability resolves. No player may take actions between the time you choose the permanent and the time it’s returned to its owner’s hand.
  • If Emancipation Angel is still on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, you may return Emancipation Angel itself.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.5 USD
    Cardmarket 0.15 EUR / 0.6 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.82 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 a permanent you control to its owner's hand.

    Kor Skyfisher #8 Creature — Kor Soldier

    Info

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Kor
  • Soldier
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • If Kor Skyfisher is still on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, you may return Kor Skyfisher itself.
  • Kor Skyfisher’s triggered ability doesn’t target a permanent. You choose which one to return to its owner’s hand as the ability resolves. No one can respond to the choice.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.5 USD
    Cardmarket 0.75 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Manapool 1.74 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 a permanent you control to its owner's hand.

    Meticulous Excavation #16 Enchantment

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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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
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.13 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.19 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 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.

    Salvager of Secrets #70 Creature — Merfolk Wizard

    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Merfolk
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.06 USD / 0.71 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.47 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.52 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

    Whitemane Lion #50 Creature — Cat

    Info

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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
    Tcgplayer 0.12 USD / 0.39 USD
    Cardmarket 0.14 EUR / 0.29 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.51 USD

    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.

    Emancipation Angel Creature — Angel Normal - ~$0.44

    Kor Skyfisher Creature — Kor Soldier Normal - ~$0.95

    Meticulous Excavation Enchantment Normal - ~$0.26

    Salvager of Secrets Creature — Merfolk Wizard Normal - ~$0.4

    Whitemane Lion Creature — Cat Normal - ~$0.31

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