Ancient Excavation

Ancient Excavation price & price history

What Ancient Excavation costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Type
Instant
Mana cost
{2}{U}{B}
Rarity
uncommon
Latest printing
The List
First printed
2016-11-11
Commander legality
Legal

Ancient Excavation price today

$0.31

€0.38

30 days -8.8%

as of 2026-10-05

All-time high
$0.48
All-time low
$0.29
1-year average
$0.41
Data since
2025-07-24

Ancient Excavation has traded between $0.29 and $0.48, averaging $0.41 over the past year. It appears in 1,008 of the commander decks we track.

Ancient Excavation in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
1,008

of 891,084 commander decks, 0.1%.

Median deck price
$242

most of those decks cost $65.93 to $1,393.

Median power level
5.1

runs 4.1 to 7.1 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Ancient Excavation

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$62.02
price
4.0
power
2.9
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{W}{U}{B}midrange
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Typical build
$242
price
6.0
power
4.3
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{U}{B}midrange
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High-end build
$1,505
price
6.1
power
3.6
salt
Bracket 2 (Core)
{U}{B}midrange
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