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Diligent Excavator

Creature — Human Artificer1 generic manaBlue mana

Cast an artifact, a legendary, or a Saga, and two cards peel off a library: repeatable, no extra mana, once per qualifying spell. That trigger is what turns a composition-matters payoff into a genuine mill engine, and the wording carries the weight. It fires on the cast rather than resolution, so a countered legendary still mills; it reads the type, not the cost, so the cheapest legendary trinket pings just as hard as a marquee bomb. Point the trigger at yourself and it becomes a steady self-mill clock for graveyard strategies that have always wanted this kind of low-cost, hands-off enabler from a two-drop. Point it across the table and it grinds an opponent's library down two at a time, slow but inevitable. The catch is that it only works as fast as your deck is stuffed with historic spells, and its 1/3 frame keeps it firmly in the support role: it blocks early and shrugs off a stray burn spell, but it contributes nothing to a board plan and asks you to build the deck that makes its trigger matter. This is an enabler for the archetype-committed, not a card that carries its own weight, and its value scales directly with how many artifacts and legends surround it.

Diligent Excavator (dom)
DOM · #51uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a historic spell, target player mills two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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