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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Meticulous Excavation

Equivalent cards to Meticulous Excavation (white, bounces your own permanents):
1. Erratic Portal - Returns creatures to hand for a cost.
2. Whitemane Lion - Returns a creature you control to hand when it enters.
3. Dust Elemental - Returns three creatures you control.
4. Kor Skyfisher - Returns a permanent you control to hand when it enters play.

These all let you repeatedly reuse enter/leave the battlefield effects in white.

Results:

Dust Elemental #5 Creature — Elemental

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 6/6
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Elemental
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Fear Flash Flying

    Rules

  • The ability of Dust Elemental doesn’t target any creature. 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 Dust Elemental creature itself to its owner’s hand as its triggered ability resolves. If you don’t control three other creatures, you must return it.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.37 USD / 6.13 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR / 4.68 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.46 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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 (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying; fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, return three creatures you control to their owner's hand.

    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

    • Prices

    Seller Price

    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 .

    Kor Skyfisher #8 Creature — Kor Soldier

    Info

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

    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 0.83 USD
    Cardmarket 0.93 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.63 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    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 0.11 USD / 0.26 USD
    Cardmarket 0.15 EUR / 0.25 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.1 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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.

    Whitemane Lion #50 Creature — Cat

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    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 0.15 USD / 0.34 USD
    Cardmarket 0.08 EUR / 0.32 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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.

    Dust Elemental Creature — Elemental Normal - ~$3.21

    Erratic Portal Artifact Normal

    Kor Skyfisher Creature — Kor Soldier Normal - ~$2.86

    Meticulous Excavation Enchantment Normal - ~$1.84

    Whitemane Lion Creature — Cat Normal - ~$1.89

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