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Archeological Digs
Deck Size: 100
Pauper EDH
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Est deck cost: $45.08
Salt sum: 18.32
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Commander

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Quintorius, Field Historian

Spirits you control get +1/+0. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

Creature
Quintorius, Field Historian (stx) 220

Commander

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Land

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Alpine Meadow

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Alpine Meadow enters tapped.

Land
Alpine Meadow (khm) 248
Boros Garrison

Boros Garrison enters tapped. When Boros Garrison enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (dmc) 200
Boros Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Boros Guildgate (c19) 234
Cabaretti Courtyard

When Cabaretti Courtyard enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Cabaretti Courtyard (snc) 249
Citadel Gate

Citadel Gate enters tapped. As Citadel Gate enters, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
Cliffgate

Cliffgate enters tapped. As Cliffgate enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c21) 284
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (bro) 261
Haunted Fengraf

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Haunted Fengraf: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Haunted Fengraf (a25) 240
Hidden Grotto

When Hidden Grotto enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Hidden Grotto (blb) 254
Lorehold Campus

Lorehold Campus enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Lorehold Campus (stx) 268
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mkm) 283
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 278
Raucous Carnival

Raucous Carnival enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Raucous Carnival (dsk) 266
Rustvale Bridge

Rustvale Bridge enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Artifact Land
Rustvale Bridge (mh2) 253
Sacred Peaks

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Sacred Peaks enters tapped.

Land
Sacred Peaks (mkc) 285
Secluded Steppe

Secluded Steppe enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Secluded Steppe (j25) 774
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (blc) 345
Thriving Bluff

Thriving Bluff enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Bluff (lcc) 361
Thriving Heath

Thriving Heath enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Heath (blc) 348
Tocasia's Dig Site

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Tocasia's Dig Site (mkc) 308
Wind-Scarred Crag

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Wind-Scarred Crag (iko) 258

Land

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Recursion

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Angelic Renewal

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Angelic Renewal (wth) 4
Ardent Elementalist

When Ardent Elementalist enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Ardent Elementalist (mid) 128
Barkform Harvester

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Reach {2}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Creature Artifact
Barkform Harvester (blb) 243
Disciple of the Sun

Lifelink When Disciple of the Sun enters, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Disciple of the Sun (mh2) 11
Jolted Awake

Choose up to one target artifact or creature card in your graveyard. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Then you may pay an amount of {E} equal to that card's mana value. If you do, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Jolted Awake (mh3) 33
Late to Dinner

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
Late to Dinner (mh2) 19
Master Skald

When Master Skald enters, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Master Skald (khm) 19
Pillardrop Rescuer

Flying When Pillardrop Rescuer enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Pillardrop Rescuer (j22) 226
Pillardrop Warden

Reach {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Pillardrop Warden: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Pillardrop Warden (stx) 112
Raffine's Guidance

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. You may cast Raffine's Guidance from your graveyard by paying {2}{W} rather than paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Raffine's Guidance (snc) 25
Recommission

Return target artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If a creature enters this way, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Recommission (bro) 22
Remember the Fallen

Choose one or both — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Remember the Fallen (2xm) 27
Revolutionist

When Revolutionist enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Madness {3}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Revolutionist (mh2) 139
Sentinel's Eyes

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance. Escape—{W}, Exile two other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Enchantment
Sentinel's Eyes (thb) 36
Trusty Packbeast

When Trusty Packbeast enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Trusty Packbeast (cmr) 53
Trusty Retriever

When Trusty Retriever enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on Trusty Retriever. • Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Trusty Retriever (jmp) 8

Recursion

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Burn

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Firebolt

Firebolt deals 2 damage to any target. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Firebolt (ody) 193
Fuming Effigy

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, Fuming Effigy deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Fuming Effigy (stx) 103

Burn

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Lifegain

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Kindly Ancestor

Creature
Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace (vow) 22Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace (vow) 22
Lunarch Veteran

Creature
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27

Lifegain

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Removal

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Banishing Light

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Enchantment
Banishing Light (blb) 1
Dawnbringer Cleric

When Dawnbringer Cleric enters, choose one — • Cure Wounds — You gain 2 life. • Dispel Magic — Destroy target enchantment. • Gentle Repose — Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature
Dawnbringer Cleric (clb) 15
Keening Apparition

Sacrifice Keening Apparition: Destroy target enchantment.

Creature
Keening Apparition (rvr) 21
Magmatic Sinkhole

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Magmatic Sinkhole deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Magmatic Sinkhole (h1r) 17
Oblivion Ring

When Oblivion Ring enters, exile another target nonland permanent. When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Oblivion Ring (m12) 27

Removal

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Creature

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Blood Age General

{T}: Attacking Spirits get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Blood Age General (stx) 93
Dauntless Cathar

{1}{W}, Exile Dauntless Cathar from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Dauntless Cathar (plst) SOI-11
Drogskol Infantry

Creature
Drogskol Infantry // Drogskol Armaments (vow) 10Drogskol Infantry // Drogskol Armaments (vow) 10
Illustrious Historian

{5}, Exile Illustrious Historian from your graveyard: Create a tapped 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

Creature
Illustrious Historian (stx) 109
Nearheath Stalker

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Nearheath Stalker (dka) 100
Tome Shredder

Haste {T}, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on Tome Shredder.

Creature
Tome Shredder (stx) 117

Creature

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Pump

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Rally the Peasants

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Rally the Peasants (ema) 25
Undying Rage

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't block. When Undying Rage is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Undying Rage to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Undying Rage (cmr) 205

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Draw

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Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
Electric Revelation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant
Electric Revelation (mid) 135
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (c21) 168
Faithless Salvaging

Discard a card, then draw a card. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Faithless Salvaging (mh2) 122
Grab the Prize

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Grab the Prize (dsk) 138
Highway Robbery

You may discard a card or sacrifice a land. If you do, draw two cards. Plot {1}{R} (You may pay {1}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Highway Robbery (otj) 129
Jack-o'-Lantern

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Jack-o'-Lantern: Exile up to one target card from a graveyard. Draw a card. {1}, Exile Jack-o'-Lantern from your graveyard: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Jack-o'-Lantern (mid) 254
Lembas

When Lembas enters, scry 1, then draw a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Lembas: You gain 3 life. When Lembas is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its owner shuffles it into their library.

Artifact
Lembas (ltr) 243
Scrapwork Mutt

When Scrapwork Mutt enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Scrapwork Mutt (bro) 164
Stonebound Mentor

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, scry 1.

Creature
Stonebound Mentor (stx) 239
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sta) 46
Thrilling Discovery

You gain 2 life. Then you may discard two cards. If you do, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Thrilling Discovery (otc) 245
Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (afr) 164

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Boros Cluestone

{T}: Add {R} or {W}. {R}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Boros Cluestone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Boros Cluestone (dgm) 137
Boros Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Artifact
Boros Signet (blc) 128
Buried Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice Buried Treasure: Add one mana of any color. {5}, Exile Buried Treasure from your graveyard: Discover 5. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Artifact
Buried Treasure (lci) 246
Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}.

Artifact
Fire Diamond (clb) 445
Gravestone Strider

{1}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn. {2}, Exile Gravestone Strider from your graveyard: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature Artifact
Gravestone Strider (mkm) 252
Halo Scarab

{2}, Exile Halo Scarab from your graveyard: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Halo Scarab (snc) 239
Honored Heirloom

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Artifact
Honored Heirloom (vow) 257
Impulsive Pilferer

When Impulsive Pilferer dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Encore {3}{R} ({3}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Impulsive Pilferer (cmr) 185
Marble Diamond

Marble Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

Artifact
Marble Diamond (clb) 446
Pilgrim of the Ages

When Pilgrim of the Ages enters, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {6}: Return Pilgrim of the Ages from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Pilgrim of the Ages (stx) 22
Vault Robber

{1}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Vault Robber (khm) 158
Vessel of Endless Rest

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Vessel of Endless Rest (uma) 235
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (clb) 344

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Maybeboard

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Battle Screech

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Battle Screech (cmm) 17
Marshaling Cry

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) Flashback {3}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Marshaling Cry (fut) 13
Molten Gatekeeper

Whenever another creature you control enters, Molten Gatekeeper deals 1 damage to each opponent. Unearth {R} ({R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Molten Gatekeeper (mh3) 128
Resurrection

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Resurrection (uma) 30
Scaretiller

Whenever Scaretiller becomes tapped, choose one — • You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. • Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature Artifact
Scaretiller (otc) 266

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Deck Info

Deck stats

25 pips - 25 cards
36 mana - 36 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
25 pips - 24 cards
34 mana - 34 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
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