Excavation Technique

Format legality

Where you can play Excavation Technique in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (4)

Prices range from $0.18 to $0.43 across finishes. Cheapest printing: The List at $0.18.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (5).

• 2021-04-16You choose whether to make a copy as the demonstrate ability resolves. This happens before the original spell resolves. Your copy goes on the stack above the original spell.
• 2021-04-16If you copy a spell with demonstrate, you then immediately choose an opponent. If they copy the spell, it goes on top of the stack.
• 2021-04-16If the spell requires targets, you choose the target of the original spell as you cast it. If you create a copy of the spell, you may choose new targets for the copy as you create that copy. Similarly, the opponent you chose to create a copy may choose new targets for that copy as it’s created. In other words, your opponent will know the targets of your original spell and your copy when choosing the new targets, if any, for their copy.
• 2021-04-16This means that if you cast a spell with demonstrate and both you and an opponent copy it, the opponent’s copy will resolve first, then your copy will resolve, and finally the original spell will resolve.
• 2021-04-16If you cast the spell and choose not to copy it, no opponent will get to copy it either.

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