Drudge Beetle
Creature — Insect
Scavenge 
(, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24071
Drudge Beetle is a 2/3 for two mana with scavenge — a fine body that becomes a late-game +1/+1 counter dispenser once it hits the graveyard. The rate is playable but unremarkable; you run it because the graveyard mode matters, not because a 2/3 for 2G is exciting.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Drudge Beetle sees essentially no competitive play across any format — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have better things to do with two mana. Pauper is the one format where scavenge creatures occasionally appear in graveyard-adjacent brews, but Drudge Beetle rarely makes the cut even there. In Commander, it fits narrow +1/+1 counter strategies helmed by commanders like Skullbriar, the Walking Grave or Marchesa, the Black Rose, where recurring counter generation from the graveyard has real value. Outside those specific shells, the card simply doesn't pull enough weight for a 100-card singleton format.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Drudge Beetle is deep bulk — you're not buying it so much as finding it in a trade binder or draft chaff pile. That price is stable in the way floor prices are stable: there's nowhere lower to go, and no demand driver that would push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.