Excava, the Risen Past
Excava, the Risen Past: Legendary Creature - Spirit Horse, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{W}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Spirit Horse
- Colour identity
- White and red (WR)
- Power / toughness
- 3/3
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
- Released
- 2026-04-24
- Collector number
- 2
- Artist
- Ilse Gort
- Commander rank
- 11,497 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying, Haste
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Excava, the Risen Past
Excava, the Risen Past is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white and red legendary creature from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 2 in that set, with art by Ilse Gort. It costs {2}{R}{W} (two generic, one white and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is white and red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Secrets of Strixhaven Commander is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.52 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Flying, haste
Whenever Excava attacks, return up to one target artifact, creature, or non-Aura enchantment card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It's a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.52 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Excava, the Risen Past by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Excava, the Risen Past, newest first.
- If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- An Equipment that's also a creature can't be attached to anything. You can activate its equip ability, but it won't become attached.
- An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
- If another effect causes one of the returned permanents to become a creature and sets its base power and toughness as it does so, that creature will have that power and toughness; it won't be 1/1. However, a Vehicle returned this way will remain a 1/1 if you crew it, and a Spacecraft returned this way will remain a 1/1 even if enough charge counters are placed on it for it to become a creature.
Similar cards
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In these precons
Excava, the Risen Past is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.