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Urborg Scavengers

Creature — Spirit2 generic manaBlack mana

Graveyard hate that dresses itself in whatever it eats. The design idea is a keyword mirror: the exile clause is not just disruption, it is the input to the body's abilities, so every card you strip from any graveyard potentially hands this Spirit a new evasion or protection line. Exile a flyer and it flies; exile something with lifelink or trample or hexproof and it wears that too, stacking traits as long as the exiled cards keep sitting under it. The +1/+1 counter on each trigger is the reliable half of the payoff: it grows every time it enters or attacks regardless of what it takes, so even a graveyard full of vanilla creatures makes it bigger. The rest is conditional in the best sense, because it turns opposing graveyards into a menu rather than a resource you simply want gone. Where most graveyard interaction is binary (the card is exiled, the disruption is done, you move on), this reads the exiled card's abilities as a permanent buff sheet, so a single trigger doubles as disruption and self-improvement. Because the trigger fires on the attack declaration rather than on damage, an exiled flyer grants flying before blocks, meaning the same swing that eats a graveyard can also slip past the ground it was about to be stopped by. A three-mana 2/2 that becomes a scaling, keyword-borrowing threat the longer a game feeds it.

Urborg Scavengers (mat)
MAT · #115rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile target card from a graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature has flying as long as a card exiled with it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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