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Soldevi Excavations

Land

If this land would enter, sacrifice an untapped Island instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.
{1}, {T}: Scry 1.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Masters Edition II
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#15464
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Soldevi Excavations card art
Soldevi Excavations lets you scry 1 before every draw step — consistent, repeatable library manipulation stapled to a land — but it enters tapped and requires sacrificing an Island, making it a real cost in any deck that needs blue mana on curve. The Freed from the Real combo potential pushes it well past a mere utility land, and that's the reason it shows up in dedicated combo builds.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Soldevi Excavations is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no Legacy or Vintage play — formats that move too fast to tolerate a tapped land that costs you an Island on entry. Commander is its natural home: the slower pace rewards the incremental scry advantage, and the singleton format means the land-based combo angle is harder to hate out than a spell-based equivalent. In Oathbreaker it can show up in the same shell for the same reasons, just on a smaller card pool.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Soldevi Excavations isn't currently available through this tool, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow combo role and single printing, copies can run higher than the card's raw power might suggest — verify before buying.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.