The Motherlode, Excavator

The Motherlode, Excavator price & price history

What The Motherlode, Excavator costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

When The Motherlode enters, choose target opponent. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls. Whenever The Motherlode attacks, you may pay {E}{E}{E}{E}. When you do, destroy target nonbasic land defending player controls, and creatures that player controls without flying can't block this turn.

Type
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
Mana cost
{3}{R}{R}
Rarity
rare
Latest printing
Fallout
First printed
2024-03-08
Commander legality
Legal

The Motherlode, Excavator price today

$0.33

€0.38

30 days +10.0%

as of 2026-10-05

All-time high
$0.47
All-time low
$0.08
1-year average
$0.26
Data since
2025-07-24

The Motherlode, Excavator has traded between $0.08 and $0.47, averaging $0.26 over the past year. It appears in 1,289 of the commander decks we track.

The Motherlode, Excavator in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
1,289

of 891,084 commander decks, 0.1%.

Median deck price
$121

most of those decks cost $49.59 to $731.

Median power level
5.1

runs 4.1 to 6.6 across those decks.

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Real decks that run The Motherlode, Excavator

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At the helm
$115
price
4.3
power
3.2
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{R}midrange
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Budget build
$46.47
price
4.7
power
3.0
salt
Bracket 2 (Core)
{U}{R}{G}combo
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Typical build
$108
price
5.3
power
3.1
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{W}{U}{R}midrange
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High-end build
$643
price
5.7
power
3.8
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{W}{U}{R}midrange
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