Deadly Grub 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.
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Official card text
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.)
How it works : Deadly Grub
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The ability checks to see if Deadly Grub had no time counters on it at the time it was put into a graveyard from the battlefield. This doesn't necessarily mean it must have been sacrificed due to vanishing; it could have been put into the graveyard some other way (say, while the sacrifice ability of vanishing is on the stack).
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Deadly Grub + Ashnod's Altar
Infinite colorless manaInfinite creature tokensInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Cast Deadly Grub by paying
. - 2Deadly Grub enters the battlefield with three time counters and a vigilance counter on it.
- 3Activate Tayam by paying
and removing the three time counters from Deadly Grub. - 4Deadly Grub's vanishing ability triggers, holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Deadly Grub, adding
. - 5Deadly Grub dies, creating a 6/1 Insect creature token.
- 6Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the Insect, adding .
- 7Resolve the Deadly Grub trigger from step 4, doing nothing since Deadly Grub is no longer on the battlefield.
- 8Resolve the Tayam ability from step 3, causing you to mill three cards and return Deadly Grub from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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#2
Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Deadly Grub + Phyrexian Altar + Abzan Ascendancy
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Cast Deadly Grub by paying .
- 2Deadly Grub enters the battlefield with three time counters and a vigilance counter on it.
- 3Activate Tayam by paying and removing the three time counters from Deadly Grub.
- 4Deadly Grub's vanishing ability triggers, holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Deadly Grub, adding
. - 5Deadly Grub dies, triggering itself and Abzan Ascendancy.
- 6Resolve the Deadly Grub trigger, creating a 6/1 Insect creature token.
- 7Resolve the Abzan Ascendancy trigger, creating a 1/1 Spirit creature token.
- 8Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing the Insect and Spirit tokens, adding .
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#3
Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Deadly Grub + Phyrexian Altar + Pitiless Plunderer
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggersInfinite artifact tokens
- 1Cast Deadly Grub by paying .
- 2Deadly Grub enters the battlefield with three time counters and a vigilance counter on it.
- 3Activate Tayam by paying and removing the three time counters from Deadly Grub.
- 4Deadly Grub's vanishing ability triggers, holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Deadly Grub, adding .
- 5Deadly Grub dies, triggering itself and Pitiless Plunderer.
- 6Resolve the Deadly Grub trigger, creating a 6/1 Insect creature token.
- 7Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 8Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Insect, adding .
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Legal formats
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