Mortician Beetle
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Modern Masters 2017MM3 · #78
- Card type
- Creature — Insect
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 3.93 € · ★ 6.03 € · 1.72 $ · ★ 2.64 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Lars Grant-West
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-03-17
Flavour text
To the soldier, war is famine; to the scavenger, a feast.
Rulings
If a creature is sacrificed as a cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, Mortician Beetle’s ability resolves before that spell or ability.
Mortician Beetle’s ability triggers whenever any player, including you, sacrifices a creature because some other spell, ability, or cost instructed the player to do so. Mortician Beetle itself doesn’t allow you to sacrifice any creatures.
