Beetle, Legacy Criminal
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue Villain
Flying
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains flying until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17368
Beetle, Legacy Criminal hits the table as a threat that punishes opponents for the artifacts and equipment already in their graveyards — the wider the table's self-mill and equip-heavy shells, the more dangerous it gets. The cost is that its power is entirely metagame-dependent: in the wrong pod it's a vanilla creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Beetle, Legacy Criminal finds its best home in artifact-heavy or graveyard-matters pods where opponents inevitably fill their yards with equipment and artifacts by mid-game, making its power scaling nearly free. In 1v1 formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, the dependency on opponents' graveyards is a real liability — dedicated artifact decks can sequence around it, and in fair matchups the floor is too low to compete. Pauper is where the artifact density in the format makes it more consistently relevant, though it still needs the right metagame read. Across all formats, treat it as a metagame card first and a standalone threat second.
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Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.