Excavation Technique

Excavation Technique

Sorcery

Mana cost: {3}{W}

How we read this card

Demonstrate
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens.

on-cast —

on-cast — makes 2 tokens

Causes: an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a battle is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a creature dies, an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a planeswalker is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a Treasure artifact token, put a Treasure artifact token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a battle in a graveyard — 129 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

Excavation Technique puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer — can bring back
  2. Narset, Enlightened Exile — can bring back
  3. Fallaji Archaeologist — can bring back
  4. Chandra, Chill of Compliance — can bring back

48 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker in a graveyard — 232 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

Excavation Technique puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. The Eldest Reborn — can bring back
  2. Yawgmoth's Vile Offering — can bring back
  3. Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen — can bring back
  4. Breach the Multiverse — can bring back
  5. Command the Dreadhorde — can bring back

70 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment in a graveyard — 983 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

Excavation Technique puts cards into the:

  1. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — graveyard that Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest can bring back
  2. Saprazzan Bailiff — graveyard that Saprazzan Bailiff can bring back
  3. Open the Vaults — graveyard that Open the Vaults can bring back
  4. Mine Excavation — graveyard that Mine Excavation can bring back
  5. Cantivore — graveyard, and Cantivore gets bigger

109 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 987 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

  1. Femeref Enchantress — When an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Excavation Technique, Femeref Enchantress draws you 1 card

9 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact in a graveyard — 1,226 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

Excavation Technique puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  2. Queen Kayla bin-Kroog — can bring back
  3. Beacon of Unrest — can bring back
  4. T'Chaka, Venerable King — can bring back
  5. Goblin Welder — can bring back
  6. Tomakul Scrapsmith — can bring back
  7. Anrakyr the Traveller — can bring back
  8. Scrap Mastery — can bring back
  9. Donnie & April, Adorkable Duo — can bring back
  10. Keeper of the Cadence — can bring back

179 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 1,254 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

When an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Excavation Technique:

  1. Party Dude — draws you 1 card
  2. Tezzeret's Touch — brings a card back
  3. Krenko, Baron of Tin Street — makes a token
  4. Shard of the Void Dragon — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
  5. Kibo, Uktabi Prince — puts a counter on an Ape or Monkey
  6. Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Gremlin Infestation — makes a token
  8. Summoning Station — untaps itself
  9. Pain Distributor — deals 1 damage
  10. Fangren Marauder — gains you 5 life

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

Excavation Technique puts cards into the:

  1. Tombstone Stairwell — graveyard, and Tombstone Stairwell gets bigger
  2. Necromancy — graveyard that Necromancy can bring back
  3. Chainer, Dementia Master — graveyard that Chainer, Dementia Master can bring back
  4. The Deck of Many Things — graveyard that The Deck of Many Things can bring back
  5. Afterlife from the Loam — graveyard that Afterlife from the Loam can bring back
  6. Crypt Champion — graveyard that Crypt Champion can bring back
  7. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — graveyard that Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal can bring back
  8. Push // Pull — graveyard that Push // Pull can bring back
  9. Vivien on the Hunt — graveyard that Vivien on the Hunt can bring back
  10. Virtus's Maneuver — graveyard that Virtus's Maneuver can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Excavation Technique:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Excavation Technique:

  1. Glissa, the Traitor — brings a card back
  2. Salvaging Station — untaps itself
  3. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back

465 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

When Excavation Technique is cast:

  1. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Lotus-Eye Mystics — gets +1/+1
  3. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back

431 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Excavation Technique is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Excavation Technique, Dual Nature exiles a creature

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.