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Quarry Beetle

Creature — Insect4 generic manaGreen mana

Lands are the cheapest permanent to bring back onto the battlefield, and the entry trigger here exploits exactly that gap: a reanimated creature arrives ready to fight, but a land arrives ready to tap the moment it resolves, no cast required, no land drop spent. Returning a land card directly to play compresses what would otherwise be two steps, a Regrowth plus a land drop, into a single trigger. That makes the body a sink for whatever you have already fed the graveyard by other means: fetchlands cracked for their second life, a utility land killed by a Wasteland effect, anything worth having twice. Green's older land recursion tends to work by replaying lands straight from the yard (Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator) turn after turn; the put-it-onto-the-battlefield version does it once, immediately, and frees your normal land drop for the turn. The five-mana cost and the 4/5 frame are what keep it honest as a midrange value creature rather than an engine you assemble around: the land comes back on entry, then the rest is a blocker. It rewards a graveyard already stocked with lands worth retrieving, which is the quiet precondition that separates it from a true recursion loop. Without a stocked yard the trigger is optional and does nothing; the Beetle asks you to have done the work before it lands.

Quarry Beetle (hou)
HOU · #127uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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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