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Scuzzback Scrounger

Creature — Goblin Warrior1 generic manaRed mana

The trick here is that the cost of the ability is paid in your own creatures' toughness, and the payoff refills your manabase. Blight 1 wants a target that either shrugs off the counter or actively wants it: a token you were going to trade away, something with a death trigger you are trying to fire, a creature already destined for the graveyard. Turned on itself, this Goblin is a short fuse: 3/2, then 2/1, then dead to the second activation once the counter drops it to 1/0. The counter is not incidental friction; it is the resource being converted into acceleration, which puts a hard ceiling on how long any single body can sustain the engine. Timing sharpens it further: the trigger resolves before combat, so the Treasure is live the turn it is minted rather than sitting idle until your next turn. Read alongside a wider -1/-1 counter theme, the card reframes what looks like a drawback as a fuel line: every point of toughness you spend comes back as a mana of any color, and the deck decides each turn whether to feed the counter to this Goblin or to something that would rather be smaller. It is a converter, taking a stat usually treated as a liability and turning it into fixing and ramp.

Scuzzback Scrounger (pecl)
PECL · #153prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.82
Foil: $3.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your first main phase, you may blight 1. If you do, create a Treasure token. (To blight 1, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control. A Treasure token is an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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