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Part of Secrets of Strixhaven
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Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Live Play Data
Excava, the Risen Past
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Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
128
Decks Running
79
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
69%
Format
First-cast turn
n=25
4%
T1
0%
T2
8%
T3
8%
T4
12%
T5
60%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
8
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
20%
(2 / 25 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
The "good card" funnel
128 brought · 73 playersBrought to game
128
Ever drawn
36
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
17
Once cast, 52% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.
≥ -2.4pp
Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=23) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=79).
Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.
Observed gap +18.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +40.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
43 instances2.3%
Library
39.5%
Battlefield
18.6%
Graveyard
20.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Quintorius, History Chaser
66 decks
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2
Isshin, Two Heavens as One
6 decks
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3
Excava, the Risen Past
2 decks
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4
Princess Twilight Sparkle
2 decks
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5
Shadowfax, Lord of Horses
2 decks
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6
Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch
1 decks
Card text
Excava, the Risen Past
Legendary Creature — Spirit Horse
Flying, haste
Whenever Excava attacks, return up to one target artifact, creature, or non-Aura enchantment card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It's a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
3 / 3
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Ilse Gort
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.