Excavating Anurid
Creature — Frog Beast
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, draw a card.
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #18544
Excavating Anurid is a 3/3 for three that replaces itself on death and puts a land into play tapped — solid rate for any deck that wants bodies in the graveyard or low-to-the-ground green creatures. The cost is the tapped land entry and the fact that the payoff only triggers on death, not on ETB.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Excavating Anurid earns its slot in graveyard-value shells and landfall decks that want cheap creatures with built-in recursion upside — the land-to-battlefield clause is real acceleration when you're dying anyway. In Pauper it's a competitive consideration for green creature strategies that need a body that replaces itself, since card parity on a 3/3 is strong at common. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in it; the rate doesn't clear the bar in formats where every card has to do something broken. Modern has better options at every point on this axis, so Excavating Anurid sits firmly in the casual and budget tier outside of Pauper.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Excavating Anurid is bulk — you'll find it in a common box or grab a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk commons with narrow appeal don't appreciate; run it because it fits the deck, not because you expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.