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Crawling Infestation

Enchantment2 generic manaGreen mana

Self-mill decks usually want the graveyard for what they can pull back out of it: reanimation targets, delve fuel, flashback fodder. This one flips the incentive. The upkeep mill is the fuel, but the payoff triggers off any creature card hitting your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, which folds the two functions of a self-mill engine (filling the yard and getting value from it) into a single enchantment that asks for nothing else. Discard a creature, sacrifice one, let one die in combat, or just mill into one off the upkeep trigger, and the same 1/1 Insect arrives. Capping the token at one per turn is what settles the card into a grinding value role rather than an explosive one: a turn that dumps six creatures into the graveyard still nets exactly one body, so it never becomes a combo piece. The mill being optional matters too, letting you decline when your library is thinning toward danger. What you end up with is a passive board-builder that turns the graveyard from a resource you spend into one that quietly pays a small tax back to you every turn, a design that rewards decks already sending creatures to the yard for other reasons without demanding they build around it.

Crawling Infestation (vow)
VOW · #193uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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