Excavator
Tempest 287 • uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Collector number
- 287
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Tom Kyffin
- Market price
- $0.21
What it does
tap, Sacrifice a basic land: Target creature gains landwalk of each of the land types of the sacrificed land until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a land of any of those types.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Excavator was released in 1997 as part of the Tempest expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed to introduce mechanics centered around graveyard interaction and combat strategy, with the card itself appearing as an uncommon artifact. It belongs to a period of game design where cards were often built to reward players for specific board states, in this case, manipulating the battlefield through a tap-activated ability.
The artwork for the card was provided by Tom Kyffin, who contributed various illustrations to the game during the mid-to-late 1990s. His depiction of the Excavator aligns with the industrial, mechanical aesthetic established for the artifacts within the Tempest block. The design was received as a utility card, valued primarily for its niche role in specific deck archetypes that required repetitive artifact usage or targeted board control.
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