Spelling Bee
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
UnfinityUNF · #155
- Card type
- Creature — Alien Insect
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.21 € · ★ 0.24 € · 0.14 $ · ★ 0.19 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Flying, deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player looks at the top card of your library and chooses a word on that card. You spell that word. If you spell it correctly, draw a card. Otherwise, scry 1.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
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Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Caroline Gariba
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-10-07
Flavour text
Just be thankful it wasn't grammar scorpions.
Rulings
If a redirection effect causes a Spelling Bee you control to deal combat damage to you, you’ll look at the top card of your own library and will choose a word to spell. No one else will be able to verify you did it correctly, but we’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
If you spell the word correctly, the card you draw will be the card that includes the word. If you don’t, the card you look at to scry 1 will be that card.
The player looking at the top card of your library can choose any word from the card’s name, type line, or text box. Notably, they can’t choose a word that’s only in the artwork or artist credit. It doesn’t have to be a real word from a dictionary; Astroquarium is a perfectly cromulent word, for example.