Blightbeetle is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.) Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.
How it works : Blightbeetle
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Blightbeetle doesn’t remove any +1/+1 counters already on creatures your opponents control.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Creatures your opponents control won’t receive +1/+1 counters as they enter the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If a replacement effect allows a player to modify or replace an event by putting +1/+1 counters on a creature affected by Blightbeetle, that player may apply that replacement effect, but they won’t get counters. If the original event is entirely replaced (such as by applying Vigor’s replacement effect), the entire original event simply doesn’t happen.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the cost of an ability or an additional cost of a spell requires putting +1/+1 counters on a creature affected by Blightbeetle, that cost can’t be paid. If a resolving spell or ability says that a player may put +1/+1 counters on that creature, that player can’t choose to do so.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Blightbeetle + Ashnod's Altar + Fateful Handoff
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Phyrexian Altar + Fateful Handoff
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Phyrexian Altar + Blim, Comedic Genius
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Phyrexian Altar + Harmless Offering
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Altar of Dementia + Fateful Handoff
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Phyrexian Altar + Bazaar Trader
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Fateful Handoff + Carrion Feeder
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Resolve the Carrion Feeder ability.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Goblin Sharpshooter + Blim, Comedic Genius
- 1Give control of Blightbeetle to an opponent, if needed. Also, give Goblin Sharpshooter deathtouch, if needed.
- 2Activate Goblin Sharpshooter by tapping it, dealing 1 damage to the additional creature and destroying it due to Goblin Sharpshooter's deathtouch.
- 3When the creature dies, its undying ability and Goblin Sharpshooter trigger.
- 4Resolve the creature's undying trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 5Resolve the Goblin Sharpshooter trigger, untapping it.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
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