Diligent Excavator

set	min	mtgo
-	0.85	0.03 tix

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Name	Diligent Excavator
Type	Creature — human artificer
Description	Whenever you cast a historic spell, target player mills two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Flavor	Archaeologists don't just dig in the dirt. They excavate time, scraping off the years grain by grain.
Artist	Mark Behm
Set	Dominaria #51
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Diligent Excavator

Diligent Excavator, Creature — human artificer, designed by Mark Behm first released in Apr, 2018 in the set Dominaria. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 0.85. It's a key card in 2 combos.

A deck that focuses on casting a high number of historic spells, such as artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas, would benefit from including Diligent Excavator. This card could fit well in a blue control deck or an artifact-based deck that aims to mill the opponent's library. However, there are potentially better options like Jace, Wielder of Mysteries or Thassa's Oracle for a dedicated mill strategy, so whether Diligent Excavator should see play would depend on the specific deck and strategy being used.

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04/27/18

A card, spell, or permanent is historic if it has the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype. Having two of those qualities doesn’t make an object more historic than another or provide an additional bonus—an object either is historic or it isn’t.

04/27/18

An ability that triggers “whenever you cast a historic spell” doesn’t trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.

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