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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Drudge Beetle

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Creature — Insect

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.)

Flavor Text:

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

Watermark:

Golgari

P/T:

2 / 2

Expansion:

Return to Ravnica

Rarity:

Common

All Sets:

Card Number:

122

Artist:

Slawomir Maniak

Rulings

4/15/2013

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.