Scavenging Scarab

Scavenging Scarab (Darksteel)
Jeff Easley

This creature can't block.

The beetles feed not on the flesh of corpses but on the metal, grinding out the iron and steel to add to their own bulky shells.

Den of the Bugbear (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Jeff Easley

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {3}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 red Goblin creature with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token that's tapped and attacking." It's still a land.

Swamp (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

({T}: Add {B}.)

Conspiracy (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Jeff Easley

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Razorfin Hunter (Apocalypse)
Jeff Easley

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

No one knew if they'd been lurking under the sea all along, or if they'd been created by the Phyrexian overlay.

Whimwader (Shadowmoor)
Jeff Easley

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a blue permanent.

"Thought? Deceit? Progress? Now you're just making it hungry." —Abral, kithkin alchemist

River Kelpie (Shadowmoor)
Jeff Easley

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Nightscape Familiar (Dominaria Remastered)
Jeff Easley

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Rimescale Dragon (Coldsnap)
Jeff Easley

Flying {2}{S}: Tap target creature and put an ice counter on it. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.) Creatures with ice counters on them don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Obsidian Battle-Axe (Morningtide)
Jeff Easley

Equipped creature gets +2/+1 and has haste. Whenever a Warrior creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equip {3}

It's the flint that sparks a warrior's rage.

Sever Soul (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"With the proper tools, even the Great River can be dammed." —Ta-Spon, Cho-Arrim executioner

Syphon Mind (Commander 2017)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Conspiracy (The List)
Jeff Easley

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Cosmic Larva (Fifth Dawn)
Jeff Easley

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you sacrifice two lands.

For millennia they wandered from plane to plane, devouring all metal. Finally, their wanderings are over.

Penumbra Wurm (Apocalypse)
Jeff Easley

Trample When this creature dies, create a 6/6 black Wurm creature token with trample.

Syphon Mind (Starter Commander Decks)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Anodet Lurker (Fifth Dawn)
Jeff Easley

When this creature dies, you gain 3 life.

These machines build fearsome visages out of scrap metal to scare off predators who would otherwise be eager to consume them.

Syphon Mind (Commander Anthology)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Ogre Taskmaster (Seventh Edition)
Jeff Easley

This creature can't block.

Ogres learn how to smash stuff even before they learn how to walk.

Conspiracy (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Restless Apparition (Eventide)
Jeff Easley

{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Black Market (The List)
Jeff Easley

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Thresher Beast (Prophecy)
Jeff Easley

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player sacrifices a land of their choice.

It destroys everything in its path, including the path itself.

Black Market (Commander 2015)
Jeff Easley

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Lowland Oaf (Lorwyn)
Jeff Easley

{T}: Target Goblin creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"I don't know why the little one was so mad. He said to put him down, and I put him down."

Syphon Mind (Planechase)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Gluetius Maximus (Unhinged)
Jeff Easley

As this creature enters, an opponent chooses one of your fingers. (Thumbs are fingers, too.) When the chosen finger isn't touching this creature, sacrifice this creature.

Nightscape Familiar (Planeshift)
Jeff Easley

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.

River Kelpie (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Jeff Easley

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Undead Gladiator (World Championship Decks 2003)
Jeff Easley

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Black Market (Jumpstart)
Jeff Easley

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Penumbra Spider (Planechase Anthology)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Tunneler Wurm (Judgment)
Jeff Easley

Discard a card: Regenerate this creature.

If an anurid's lucky, it'll find a warm tunnel for bedtime. If a wurm's lucky, it'll find a warm anurid for breakfast.

Nightscape Familiar (World Championship Decks 2002)
Jeff Easley

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.

Undertaker (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Jeff Easley

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The weight of death is heavy but not immovable.

Penumbra Spider (Modern Masters 2017)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Syphon Mind (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Penumbra Spider (Time Spiral Remastered)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Soul Link (Apocalypse)
Jeff Easley

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life. Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

They danced like puppets to a tune only Yawgmoth could hear.

Undertaker (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The weight of death is heavy but not immovable.

Syphon Mind (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Enshrined Memories (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Jeff Easley

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The race is run in the mind before the first step is taken." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Death or Glory (Invasion)
Jeff Easley

Separate all creature cards in your graveyard into two piles. Exile the pile of an opponent's choice and return the other to the battlefield.

White Shield Crusader (Coldsnap)
Jeff Easley

Protection from black {W}: This creature gains flying until end of turn. {W}{W}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Honor your steed and it will carry you to great deeds—and bring you home to tell of them."

Child of Thorns (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Jeff Easley

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The soratami scoff at the perils of Jukai, calling the forest an 'unruly garden.' Perhaps we should send them a rose such as this." —Dokai, Weaver of Life

Penumbra Spider (The List)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Reckless Assault (Invasion)
Jeff Easley

{1}, Pay 2 life: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

"How will you fight an enemy that cares nothing for itself?" —The Blind Seer

Nightscape Familiar (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Jeff Easley

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Arc-Slogger (Mirrodin)
Jeff Easley

{R}, Exile the top ten cards of your library: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.

A shuffling sound and the smell of ozone follow the slogger as surely as its electric tail.

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2001)
Jeff Easley

({T}: Add {B}.)

Black Market (Commander 2017)
Jeff Easley

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Death or Glory (The List)
Jeff Easley

Separate all creature cards in your graveyard into two piles. Exile the pile of an opponent's choice and return the other to the battlefield.

Restless Apparition (Modern Masters 2015)
Jeff Easley

{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Razorfin Hunter (The List)
Jeff Easley

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

No one knew if they'd been lurking under the sea all along, or if they'd been created by the Phyrexian overlay.

Midnight Ritual (Tenth Edition)
Jeff Easley

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Bury old friends deeply, lest they return bearing worms.

Sengir Vampire (Beatdown Box Set)
Jeff Easley

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Wurmcalling (Time Spiral)
Jeff Easley

Buyback {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Create an X/X green Wurm creature token.

Nightscape Familiar (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Jeff Easley

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.

Midnight Ritual (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Bury old friends deeply, lest they return bearing worms.

Festercreep (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Jeff Easley

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {1}{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: All other creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

A single festercreep isn't alone. It's already an infestation.

Vitalizing Wind (Prophecy)
Jeff Easley

Creatures you control get +7/+7 until end of turn.

"The fifth wind of ascension is Exalter, fulfilling Keld's destiny." —*Keld Triumphant*

Maggot Therapy (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.

"If this is the cure, I'd hate to see the disease." —Orim

Deflection (Seventh Edition)
Jeff Easley

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

"You've thrown your net at the wrong fish." —The Lord of Atlantis

Syphon Mind (Commander 2011)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Penumbra Spider (Commander 2011)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

Pulmonic Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Jeff Easley

All Sliver creatures have flying. All Slivers have "If this permanent would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead."

Like a great bellows it hisses, and its kin, both living and dead, are lifted to safety.

Pulmonic Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Jeff Easley

All Sliver creatures have flying. All Slivers have "If this permanent would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead."

Like a great bellows it hisses, and its kin, both living and dead, are lifted to safety.

Reality Shift (Secret Lair Drop)
Jeff Easley

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Master Guide, *2nd Edition (1989)*

Penumbra Spider (Time Spiral)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Festercreep (Commander 2016)
Jeff Easley

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {1}{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: All other creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

A single festercreep isn't alone. It's already an infestation.

Death Wish (Judgment)
Jeff Easley

You may put a card you own from outside the game into your hand. You lose half your life, rounded up. Exile Death Wish.

He wished for power, but not for the longevity to abuse it.

Festercreep (The List)
Jeff Easley

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {1}{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: All other creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

A single festercreep isn't alone. It's already an infestation.

Aquitect's Will (Lorwyn)
Jeff Easley

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

There is nowhere on Lorwyn that the Merrow Lanes cannot go.

Penumbra Spider (Planechase 2012)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Creature Guy (Unhinged)
Jeff Easley

Gotcha — If an opponent says "creature" or "guy," you may say "Gotcha!" When you do, return Creature Guy from your graveyard to your hand.

There once was a player named Quinn, . . .

Ferropede (Fifth Dawn)
Jeff Easley

This creature can't be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Syphon Mind (Commander 2014)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Penumbra Spider (Modern Masters)
Jeff Easley

Reach When this creature dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach.

When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled.

Festercreep (Morningtide)
Jeff Easley

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {1}{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: All other creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

A single festercreep isn't alone. It's already an infestation.

Syphon Mind (DCI Promos)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Pulmonic Sliver (Time Spiral)
Jeff Easley

All Sliver creatures have flying. All Slivers have "If this permanent would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead."

Like a great bellows it hisses, and its kin, both living and dead, are lifted to safety.

Slingshot Goblin (Planeshift)
Jeff Easley

{R}, {T}: This creature deals 2 damage to target blue creature.

It's most effective when it doesn't eat the ammunition.

Black Market (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Jeff Easley

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Scavenging Scarab (Darksteel)
Jeff Easley

This creature can't block.

The beetles feed not on the flesh of corpses but on the metal, grinding out the iron and steel to add to their own bulky shells.

River Kelpie (Commander 2019)
Jeff Easley

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Jawbone Skulkin (Eventide)
Jeff Easley

{2}: Target red creature gains haste until end of turn.

"Ah, skull of shrew—a very potent substance. In powdered form, it gives thrice the zing of noggle hoof pulp." —Boghald, Barrenton medic

Nightscape Familiar (Commander 2013)
Jeff Easley

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.

Sengir Vampire (Mystery Booster 2)
Jeff Easley

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Sever Soul (The List)
Jeff Easley

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"With the proper tools, even the Great River can be dammed." —Ta-Spon, Cho-Arrim executioner

Ruham Djinn (Invasion)
Jeff Easley

First strike This creature gets -2/-2 as long as white is the most common color among all permanents or is tied for most common.

Black Market (Mercadian Masques)
Jeff Easley

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Dreamspoiler Witches (Modern Masters)
Jeff Easley

Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

At night, the faeries steal dreamstuff for their queen. At daybreak, countless creatures wake weak and hollow.

Syphon Mind (Onslaught)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Dreamspoiler Witches (Lorwyn)
Jeff Easley

Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

At night, the faeries steal dreamstuff for their queen. At daybreak, countless creatures wake weak and hollow.

Pulsemage Advocate (Judgment)
Jeff Easley

{T}: Return three target cards from an opponent's graveyard to their hand. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Our unity revives our hopes."

Syphon Mind (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Jeff Easley

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Undead Gladiator (Onslaught)
Jeff Easley

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Voltaic Construct (Darksteel)
Jeff Easley

{2}: Untap target artifact creature.

The undead may outlast the living, but those who have never lived outlast them both.