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Rust Scarab

Creature — Insect4 generic manaGreen mana

The disenchant here is not a spell you cast; it is a threat you swing with, and the opponent is the one who decides whether it goes off. A 4/5 body in green is sized to attack into most of what it meets and trade up, but the destruction clause only fires when the defending player commits a blocker. That inverts how green normally answers artifacts and enchantments: a Naturalize is cast on your own clock, mana paid to kill a known target. This one makes the opponent choose their own loss. Block the Scarab and their Signet or their Pacifism cracks; wave it through and they eat four. The honest limit is that a defender can simply decline to block and pay in life, which means the ability is a tax on combat rather than reliable removal. It bites hardest when the body is large enough that blocking looks correct and the permanent on the other side is worth more than a chunk of life. What you are really wielding is a piece of combat math dressed as utility: the destruction happens because the opponent decided a block was worth more than the artifact you were promising to break. It is a green attacker for the player who reads exactly what the other side cannot afford to keep on the board.

Rust Scarab (gtc)
GTC · #130uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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