Plague Beetle
Urza's Legacy 64 • common
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Collector number
- 64
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Tom Fleming
- Market price
- $0.15
What it does
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
It is the harbinger of disease, not the carrier.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in February 1999 as part of the Urza's Legacy expansion, the Plague Beetle is a black creature card that fits into the lore of the Urza block, a pivotal period in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse narrative. The set was designed to explore the ongoing conflict between the artificer Urza and the mechanical empire of Phyrexia, with the beetle serving as a representative of the grotesque, biomechanical horrors propagated by the Phyrexians.
The card features artwork by Tom Fleming, whose illustrative style during the late 1990s helped define the dark, gothic aesthetic of the game's non-artifact black cards. Fleming's design emphasizes the creature's status as a lowly but persistent pest, utilizing a color palette and anatomical exaggeration typical of the era's creature design to convey the unsettling nature of Phyrexian experimentation.
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About Plague Beetle
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