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Sluiceway Scorpion

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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Sluiceway Scorpion

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Creature — Scorpion

Card Text:

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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.)

Watermark:

Golgari

P/T:

2 / 2

Expansion:

Return to Ravnica

Rarity:

Common

Card Number:

198

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.