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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Terrus Wurm

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Creature — Zombie Wurm

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:

"We follow it through its tunnels, and where it dies, we farm."

—Mihas, spore druid

Watermark:

Golgari

P/T:

5 / 5

Expansion:

Return to Ravnica

Rarity:

Common

Card Number:

Artist:

Cliff Childs

Language:

English

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.