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    Excavation Explosion

    Sorcery

    Excavation Explosion

    Illustrated by Campbell White

    EDHREC Rank #20,168
    Excavation Explosion deals 3 damage to any target. Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with " tap : Add colorless mana . This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

    Urza's engineers could take weeks to dig out a powerstone. The goblins weren't so painstaking.

    Rulings (3)

    You can use the colorless mana added by a Powerstone token on anything that isn't a nonartifact spell. This includes paying costs to activate abilities of both artifact and nonartifact permanents, paying ward costs, and so on.

    Oct 14, 2022

    Although all the cards in The Brothers' War that create Powerstone tokens create a tapped Powerstone token, entering the battlefield tapped isn't part of the token's definition. Notably, if you create a token that is a copy of a Powerstone token, the token copy won't enter the battlefield tapped.

    Oct 14, 2022

    Powerstone tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one has the artifact subtype "Powerstone" and the ability " tap : Add colorless mana . This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell."

    Oct 14, 2022

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