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Deadly Grub

Creature — Insect

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When this creature dies, if it had no time counters on it, create a 6/1 green Insect creature token with shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Planar Chaos
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#20337
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Deadly Grub card art
Deadly Grub is a 6/1 trampler for three mana once its haunting condition clears — that's a legitimately threatening body at a real discount. The catch is jumping through the hoop of having no cards in hand, which makes it a build-around rather than a staple, and Tayam, Luminous Enigma is currently the most focused shell for recurring and exploiting it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Deadly Grub is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. Its competitive home is Pauper, where a 6/1 trample for three mana is a genuine threat in hellbent or discard-synergy shells that can reliably empty their hand. In Commander it's a niche piece tied to specific sacrifice-and-recur engines rather than a general-purpose include. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the condition is too costly when faster, unconditional threats exist.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Deadly Grub is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow combo applications rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the specific deck that wants it, not a long-term hold.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.