Time Beetle
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Creature — Alien Insect
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.19 € · ★ 0.72 € · 0.35 $ · ★ 1.05 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Parallel Universe — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, time travel. (For each suspended card you own and each permanent you control with a time counter on it, you may add or remove a time counter.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- John Tedrick
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-10-13
Rulings
Time counters are usually found on cards with suspend and vanishing, but may be found on other cards as well. Notably, Sagas use lore counters to track their progress, not time counters. You can't move a Saga's chapters forward and backward this way.
To time travel, look at each permanent you control with a time counter on it and each suspended card you own in exile with a time counter on it. For each of them, you choose whether you want to put a time counter on that card or permanent, remove a time counter from it, or do neither. Then those changes all happen simultaneously.