Meticulous Excavation

Meticulous Excavation

Enchantment

Mana cost: {W}

How we read this card

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.

activated {2}{W} — bounce

activated {2}{W} —

Causes: a permanent leaves the battlefield, exile a permanent.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a permanent is exiled — 69 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

  1. Hero of Bretagard — When Meticulous Excavation is exiled, Hero of Bretagard puts that many counters on a permanent

a nontoken permanent leaves the battlefield — 313 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

  1. Genku, Future Shaper — When Meticulous Excavation leaves the battlefield, Genku, Future Shaper makes a token

a permanent leaves the battlefield — 315 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

When Meticulous Excavation leaves the battlefield:

  1. Super Shredder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Nefarious Imp — scries

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Meticulous Excavation is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

When Meticulous Excavation is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Meticulous Excavation enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Meticulous Excavation is one).

When Meticulous Excavation enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

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