Blightbeetle
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Core Set 2020M20 · #87
- Card type
- Creature — Insect
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.45 € · ★ 1.37 € · 0.59 $ · ★ 4.09 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.) Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Jason Kang
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2019-07-12
Flavour text
Leaf and soul alike wither at its touch.
Rulings
Blightbeetle doesn’t remove any +1/+1 counters already on creatures your opponents control.
Creatures your opponents control won’t receive +1/+1 counters as they enter the battlefield.
If a replacement effect allows a player to modify or replace an event by putting +1/+1 counters on a creature affected by Blightbeetle, that player may apply that replacement effect, but they won’t get counters. If the original event is entirely replaced (such as by applying Vigor’s replacement effect), the entire original event simply doesn’t happen.
If the cost of an ability or an additional cost of a spell requires putting +1/+1 counters on a creature affected by Blightbeetle, that cost can’t be paid. If a resolving spell or ability says that a player may put +1/+1 counters on that creature, that player can’t choose to do so.
