Excava, the Risen Past
| Name | Excava, the Risen Past |
|---|---|
| Type | Legendary creature — spirit horse |
| Description | 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 See more |
| Artist | Ilse Gort |
| Set | Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #2 |
| Wallpaper |  download |
| Image |  download |
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About Excava, the Risen Past
Excava, the Risen Past, Legendary creature — spirit horse, designed by Ilse Gort first released in Apr, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven Commander.
Excava, the Risen Past fits best in aggressive or midrange Boros (R/W) decks that can reliably fill the graveyard with cheap permanents—especially artifacts, small utility creatures, or value enchantments—so it pairs well with self-mill, discard, sacrifice, or aggressive trading strategies; it’s particularly appealing in formats like Commander where recurring low-cost value pieces (e.g., Esper Sentinel, cheap mana rocks, Seal of Cleansing–style effects, or small ETB creatures) generates incremental advantage every attack. The card shines in synergy-driven builds (artifact recursion, aristocrats, or go-wide shells that don’t mind the 1/1 body), but it’s likely too slow or fragile for highly competitive formats unless built around carefully, since a 3-mana 2-color creature that must attack to generate value competes with stronger options like Seasoned Pyromancer (immediate value), Fable of the Mirror-Breaker (long-term engine), or Lurrus of the Dream-Den (more flexible recursion, where l
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