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Canoptek Scarab Swarm

Artifact Creature — Insect4 generic mana

Graveyard hate that pays you for the fields it clears. Most exile-a-graveyard effects treat the yard as an undifferentiated threat: a Bojuka Bog wipes it and moves on. This one reads the graveyard's composition, singling out artifacts and lands and converting each into a flying body. That turns a symmetric-feeling disruption spell into an asymmetric board-building play, and it rewards you most against exactly the decks that lean hardest on artifact recursion and land-heavy graveyard value. The token count scales with an opponent's investment, so the more a graveyard-centric deck has banked, the larger the swarm it hands you when you empty it. The body itself is incidental (a fragile flier), which is the point: the value lives in the enters trigger and its selective accounting, not in the 1/1 it rides in on. It slots naturally into artifact-token strategies, where a colorless flier or three feeds the same sacrifice fodder and go-wide payoffs that the rest of the deck already wants, and where interrupting an opponent's recursion loop while widening your own board is two jobs done in one card.

Canoptek Scarab Swarm (40k)
40K · #150rare
Pricing
Normal: $11.45
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Feeder Mandibles — When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard. For each artifact or land card exiled this way, create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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