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Stinging Cave Crawler

Card Name

Stinging Cave Crawler

Mana Cost

2

Type

Creature – Insect Horror

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

DeathtouchDescend 4 — Whenever Stinging Cave Crawler attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Flavor Text

Caverns uninhabited by mycoids are often infested with worse.

Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Pauper

Rulings

(11/10/2023)
Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.
(11/10/2023)
Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.