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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Meticulous Excavation

Equivalent cards to Meticulous Excavation (white, lets you return your permanents) include:

  • Whitemane Lion: Flash creature, lets you return another creature you control to your hand.
  • Kor Skyfisher: Returns a permanent you control to your hand when it enters the battlefield.
  • Cloudshift: Instant, exiles then returns a creature you control (blink effect).
  • Emeria Shepherd: Returns permanents from your graveyard to your hand/field with landfall.


Reason: All allow saving/bouncing/rebuying your own permanents, similar to Meticulous Excavation.

Results:

Cloudshift #97 Instant

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 1
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.
  • Once the exiled permanent returns, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled permanent will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist.
  • The returned card won't be the target of any spells or abilities that targeted it before. Any spells that don't target, such as Akroma's Vengeance, will still affect it.
  • When an effect returns the exiled card "under your control," you control it indefinitely after that. In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any creatures you control from Cloudshift's effect are exiled.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 1.7 USD
    Cardmarket 1.55 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD
    Cardsphere 1.87 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

    Emeria Shepherd #22s Creature — Angel

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Angel
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • A "nonland permanent card" is an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card.
  • If you return an Aura to the battlefield this way, you choose what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. This doesn't target any player or permanent, so you could attach an Aura to a permanent with hexproof controlled by an opponent, for example. If there's nothing the Aura can legally enchant, it stays in the graveyard.
  • 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.).

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 20.31 USD
    Cardmarket 1.86 EUR / 5.32 EUR
    Cardkingdom 10.99 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If that land is a Plains, you may return that nonland permanent card to the battlefield instead.

    Kor Skyfisher #8 Creature — Kor Soldier

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Kor
  • Soldier
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    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 1.27 USD
    Cardmarket 0.77 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.67 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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
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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 0.1 USD / 0.17 USD
    Cardmarket 0.24 EUR / 0.35 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.09 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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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    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 0.07 USD / 0.39 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR / 0.31 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardsphere 0.2 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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.

    Cloudshift Instant Normal - ~$1.65

    Emeria Shepherd Creature — Angel Normal - ~$9.62

    Kor Skyfisher Creature — Kor Soldier Normal - ~$0.9

    Meticulous Excavation Enchantment Normal - ~$0.26

    Whitemane Lion Creature — Cat Normal - ~$0.26

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