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Meticulous Excavation

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Meticulous Excavation

Enchantment

: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand. If it has , instead it, then return that card to its owner's hand. only during your turn.

$0.20

Commander: LegalModern: Legal

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Tags and classifications

Card attributes are distinct from extracted ability facts and inferred themes. AI themes and predicted tags are suggestions, not rules text.

Ability tags

Activated

Mana costs

× 1

Color identity

W

Mana value

Mana value 0–1

Timing tags

Timing Sorcery

Type tags

Enchantment

Predicted tags are currently unavailable.

Ability classification

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

partial Extraction abilities-3

Incomplete card classification: unmodeled effect: If it has unearth, instead exile it; unmodeled effect restriction: return that card to its owner's hand; unmodeled effect: Activate only during your turn.

Ability 1

activatedpartial

{2}{W}: 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.

Active zone
battlefield
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {2}{W}
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: If it has unearth, instead exile it; unmodeled effect restriction: return that card to its owner's hand; unmodeled effect: Activate only during your turn.
Source span
0–176

Functional categories

cadence.repeatabledelivery.activatedeconomic.producerinteraction.bounce

Effects

payment · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self W · amount 1
    action kind: activated_ability
  • requires mana · self generic · amount 2
    action kind: activated_ability

bounce · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • produces bounce · self card · amount 1 · battlefield → hand
    No additional explicit requirement.

bounce · immediate

Unsupported condition: return that card to its owner's hand

  • produces bounce · any card · amount 1 · battlefield → hand
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: If it has unearth, instead exile it; unmodeled effect restriction: return that card to its owner's hand; unmodeled effect: Activate only during your turn.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
4a8b81f8b04d8544c627f70bcee03b5ffc02fff6eb1c45fae420d71f7461ecbe
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

{2}{W}: 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.

Ability 2

castcomplete

Cast Meticulous Excavation

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {W}
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self W · amount 1
    action kind: noncreature_spell
  • produces noncreature_cast · self spell · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.
Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
4a8b81f8b04d8544c627f70bcee03b5ffc02fff6eb1c45fae420d71f7461ecbe
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Enchantment

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Balanced: 0.60*text + 0.20*tags + 0.10*color + 0.10*cost. Outputs are unitless rankings, not percentages or probabilities. Most similar shows the highest scores; Typical overlap is nearest the catalog median (0.132); Least similar shows the lowest scores.

Text uses cosine resemblance (−1 to 1) between 384-number embeddings when available, or lexical fallback otherwise. Tags use Jaccard overlap of approved tags and AI themes, excluding predicted tags and separately scored color/cost tags. Color compares W/U/B/R/G identity. Mana cost combines mana-value proximity, 1 / (1 + the difference), with mana-symbol overlap. Tags, color, and cost range from 0 to 1.

Model: bge-small-en-v1.5. 0 of 34,605 catalog cards currently have embeddings.

Card relationships

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

Scoring revision: relationships-3. Loves, hates, neutral, mixed, conditional, and unknown remain distinct results.

Potential relationships

Evaluated 512 of 5,033 indexed candidates. Showing 2 of 2 bounded tied matches; alphabetical within ties.

Azorius Chancery

Conditional loves

Land · Mana cost: Unavailable

Perspective
same controller
Status
conditional
Signed compatibility
1.000
Positive impact
1.000
Negative impact
0.000
Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability 189fc8f4-17ac-4f1d-82c8-8401445bdaf4:0:2:abilities-3:62582c6623e28434a638344d16ca8ff925532f00b3b38dbc8865726e31f35c3a supplies the exact mana input used by target ability 6dff1d15-604f-4eea-9b7a-0c0ba6afbbac:0:cast:abilities-3:4a8b81f8b04d8544c627f70bcee03b5ffc02fff6eb1c45fae420d71f7461ecbe.

    enables · mana · impact 1.000 · conditional

    Conditions: target ability requires timing=sorcery; target resource requires action_kind=noncreature_spell

    Source evidence

    Source ability: 189fc8f4-17ac-4f1d-82c8-8401445bdaf4:0:2:abilities-3:62582c6623e28434a638344d16ca8ff925532f00b3b38dbc8865726e31f35c3a

    {T}: Add {W}{U}.

    Target ability: 6dff1d15-604f-4eea-9b7a-0c0ba6afbbac:0:cast:abilities-3:4a8b81f8b04d8544c627f70bcee03b5ffc02fff6eb1c45fae420d71f7461ecbe

    Cast Meticulous Excavation

Boros Garrison

Conditional loves

Land · Mana cost: Unavailable

Perspective
same controller
Status
conditional
Signed compatibility
1.000
Positive impact
1.000
Negative impact
0.000
Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability 8fa3ac81-3dfe-4565-be99-5554f7597b4b:0:2:abilities-3:d80eeabe884215062a9556152af27bfcd64f5f3e0954a3109117943c0efd5fc1 supplies the exact mana input used by target ability 6dff1d15-604f-4eea-9b7a-0c0ba6afbbac:0:cast:abilities-3:4a8b81f8b04d8544c627f70bcee03b5ffc02fff6eb1c45fae420d71f7461ecbe.

    enables · mana · impact 1.000 · conditional

    Conditions: target ability requires timing=sorcery; target resource requires action_kind=noncreature_spell

    Source evidence

    Source ability: 8fa3ac81-3dfe-4565-be99-5554f7597b4b:0:2:abilities-3:d80eeabe884215062a9556152af27bfcd64f5f3e0954a3109117943c0efd5fc1

    {T}: Add {R}{W}.

    Target ability: 6dff1d15-604f-4eea-9b7a-0c0ba6afbbac:0:cast:abilities-3:4a8b81f8b04d8544c627f70bcee03b5ffc02fff6eb1c45fae420d71f7461ecbe

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Potential opposing interactions

Evaluated 0 of 0 indexed candidates. No evaluated candidates were returned. This is not evidence of neutrality.

No relationship candidates are available for this view.

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