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"Find me cards equivalent to: Meticulous Excavation"

Cards similar to Meticulous Excavation (White enchantments that return your own permanents):
1. Umbilicus

  • Lets each player pay 2 life or return a permanent to hand each upkeep.
    2. Cloudstone Curio (artifact, colorless, similar effect)
  • Allows you to return a permanent to hand when another enters play.
    3. Flickerform
  • Allows you to exile and return attached creature (slightly different).

None do exactly the unearth interaction, but Meticulous Excavation is unique for this combination. Umbilicus is closest in color and returning ability.

Reason: Nearly all other white enchantments bounce only creatures/lands, or have a different restriction.

Found Cards

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Cloudstone Curio

Flickerform

Meticulous Excavation

Umbilicus

Cloudstone Curio #443 Artifact

Variations: v1 v2 v3 v4
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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 3
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    Rules

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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 19.99 USD 16.99 USD
    Manapool 10.42 USD / 16.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 10.83 USD / 16.42 USD
    Cardmarket 7.87 EUR / 12.01 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

    Flickerform #11 Enchantment — Aura

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Enchantment
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  • Aura
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Enchant

    Rules

  • If the enchanted creature was a token, it ceased to exist when it was exiled. Any Auras that were attached to it (including Flickerform) remain exiled.
  • The card that was enchanted comes back onto the battlefield first, regardless of whether it’s still a creature. Then any Auras exiled that can legally enchant that card come back. Any Auras that can’t enchant that permanent remain exiled.
  • If the enchanted creature was also enchanted by Copy Enchantment, Copy Enchantment will return to the battlefield attached to that permanent. As Copy Enchantment returns to the battlefield, its controller may choose any enchantment on the battlefield for it to copy. It can’t copy Flickerform or any other Aura returning to the battlefield at the same time. If it copies a non-Aura enchantment, it returns to the battlefield unattached instead.
  • If the enchanted creature was enchanted by any Auras with bestow or any Licids, those cards will return to the battlefield unattached as creatures.

    • Prices

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    Cardkingdom 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.58 EUR / 0.21 EUR
    Tcgplayer 2 USD
    Manapool 0.93 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Enchant creature : Exile enchanted creature and all Auras attached to it. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, return the other cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners' control attached to that creature.

    Meticulous Excavation #16 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
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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.

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    Cardmarket 0.03 EUR / 0.24 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool / 0.18 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.15 USD / 0.18 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
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • 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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool / 0.34 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.35 USD 0.17 USD
    Cardmarket 0.26 EUR / 0.28 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.