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Garrison Excavator SOS 0116 · uncommon

Garrison Excavator · {3}{R} · Creature — Orc Sorcerer · Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 red and white Spirit creature token. · Power / toughness: 3/4 · "I don't care that they're 'off-limits,' the Lost Barracks hold too many war relics to not pay them a visit!"

Garrison Excavator · {3}{R} · Creature — Orc Sorcerer · Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 red and white Spirit creature token. · Power / toughness: 3/4 · "I don't care that they're 'off-limits,' the Lost Barracks hold too many war relics to not pay them a visit!"

Price
from $0.211 printing
Win rate
57.5% GIH 27,847 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 16,025 wins in 27,847 card-in-hand instances.

25,307 distinct games · 8,471 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

57.5%when drawn (GIH)

+2.2 pp vs 55.4% average · 27,847 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#101 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.4 on average (58,804 packs).

13 of 45 red cards · 5 of 17 red uncommon cards.

Taken at pick5.314,174 picks
Makes the deck73.6%14,174 picks with known usage
When played57.2%58,236.8 matchesBenched 54.3%
16,442.2 matches
When drawn57.5%27,847 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.5% · 10,472 instances
● Drawn later 58.2% · 17,375 instances

In hand 57.5% · 27,847 instances
Unseen in deck 57.6% · 33,595 instances
−0.0 percentage points when drawn

Compared with red cards

Win rate when drawn57.5%27,847 instances13 of 45
Opening hand56.5%10,472 instances12 of 43
Drawn later58.2%17,375 instances19 of 43
In the deck57.6%61,412 instances4 of 45
Without seeing it57.6%33,595 instances3 of 45
Improvement when drawn−0.0 pp27,847 instances / 33,595 instances36 of 45
When benched54.3%16,442.2 matches41 of 45
Makes the deck73.6%14,174 picks with known usage16 of 45
Pick (last seen)4.458,804 packs18 of 45
Taken at5.314,174 picks16 of 45

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Lorehold Flashback Excavation RW58.8%20,273 instancesPrismari Opus Spellcasting UR52.5%638 instancesBlack–Red BR0.0%1 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.5% · 27,847 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Rubble Rouser+5.3 pp32,516 games with both in the deck · 9,439 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 69% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0116 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-lorehold · prerelease-prismari$0.21
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.31

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 33 packs (3.00%) · 30.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 298 packs (0.34%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.38%) · 64.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-lorehold · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (11.11%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-prismari · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (11.11%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterUncommons100% per positionUncommons
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil uncommons100% per positionTraditional foil uncommons

Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Cristi Balanescu, SOS 116 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗