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Drudge Beetle

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Return to RavnicaRTR · #122

Card type: Creature — Insect
Rarity: Common
Indicative price: 0.05 € · ★ 0.19 € · 0.04 $ · ★ 0.01 $
Mana value: 2
Power: 2
Toughness: 2
Colour: Green

Card text

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PauperLegal
PaupercommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
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: Slawomir Maniak
Card language: English
Release date: 2012-10-05

Flavour text

The Street Swarm is the labor class that drives the Golgari's endless cycle of life and death.

Rulings

2013-04-15

Exiling the creature card with scavenge is part of the cost of activating the scavenge ability. Once the ability is activated and the cost is paid, it’s too late to stop the ability from being activated by trying to remove the creature card from the graveyard.