Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 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
Menace Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay. If you do, transform Grub. Menace Whenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token." At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay
. If you do, transform Grub.
How it works : Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature's toughness is reduced to 0 while blighting during the resolution of Grub, Notorious Auntie's second ability, that creature won't die until after the ability finishes resolving. The same is true if the -1/-1 counter would cause damage already marked on that creature to become lethal.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The back face of a nonmodal double-faced card usually has a color indicator that defines its color.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
In some rare cases, this permanent might transform while its triggered ability that allows you to pay mana to transform it is still on the stack. (For example, another effect might cause that ability to trigger an additional time.) In such a case, even if you pay mana as the triggered ability resolves, this permanent won't transform because it already transformed while the triggered ability was on the stack.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature has
in its mana cost, X is 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
Each face of a nonmodal double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a double-faced permanent is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Oko, Lorwyn Liege's color identity is green and blue, since its front face is blue, its rules text contains a green mana symbol, and its back face has a green color indicator as well as a blue mana symbol in its rules text.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.
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- #9· Wizards of the Coast
The token created by Grub, Notorious Auntie's second ability copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else, with the listed exception (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
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- #10· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the copied creature will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #11· Wizards of the Coast
A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #12· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exception.
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- #13· Wizards of the Coast
If you are instructed to put a card that isn't a double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will not enter at all.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #14· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the listed exception.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #15· Wizards of the Coast
A token that is created as a copy of a double-faced permanent or a double-faced card in another zone is a double-faced token. It will have both the front face and back face of whatever object it's copying. If it's copying a double-faced permanent whose back face is up, the token will enter with its back face up. It can transform if instructed to do so.
Card named in this ruling
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Breath of Fury
- 1Declare Grub and the creature with Breath of Fury attached as attackers. Grub triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on the creature with haste, and then creating a tapped and attacking copy of that creature.
- 2Deal combat damage using the creature that has Breath of Fury attached. Breath of Fury triggers, causing you to sacrifice the creature it is attached to, then attach Breath of Fury to the token with haste, then causing you to untap all creatures you control and to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 3Move to your next combat phase, and declare Grub and the token that has Breath of Fury attached as attackers.
- 4Grub triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on the creature with Breath of Fury attached, and then creating a tapped and attacking copy of that creature.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + Anger
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + Rising of the Day
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + The Fire Crystal
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + Urabrask the Hidden
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + Mass Hysteria
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + Fervor
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie + Combat Celebrant + Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter
- 1Declare Grub and Combat Celebrant as attackers, choosing to exert Combat Celebrant as it attacks. Grub and Combat Celebrant trigger.
- 2Resolve the Grub trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on Combat Celebrant and then creating a tapped and attacking token copy of it.
- 3Combat Celebrant dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 4Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, causing you to untap all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat each combat phase, using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
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