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Vexing Scuttler

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Colorless. Creature — Eldrazi Crab

eight generic mana

011 · EMN · U · ENWhat the codes mean

Vexing Scuttler

Eldritch Moon #11 · Illustrated by James Paick

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Oracle text

Emerge six generic manaone blue mana (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)

When you cast this spell, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

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Card details

First printed
2016
Printings
1
Mana value
8
EDHREC rank
#17,438 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Emerge
Artist
James Paick

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Eldritch Moon card (#11).

011 · EMN · U · EN

  • 011Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
  • EMNSet code for Eldritch Moon
  • UUncommon
  • ENPrinted in English

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Keywords

EmergeCR 702.119
Defined in the Comprehensive Rules at the rule above.

Rule numbers from the Magic Comprehensive Rules, version of September 25, 2026.

Rulings (12)

  1. 2016-07-13

    An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack without resolving.

  2. 2025-01-24

    Emerge represents two static abilities that function while the spell with emerge is on the stack. “Emerge [cost]” means “You may cast this spell by paying [cost] and sacrificing a creature rather than paying its mana cost” and “If you chose to pay this spell’s emerge cost, its total cost is reduced by an amount of generic mana equal to the sacrificed creature’s mana value.”

  3. 2025-01-24

    The mana value of a creature spell with emerge isn’t affected by whether its emerge cost is paid. For example, if you cast Decimator of the Provinces for its emerge cost and sacrifice a creature whose mana value is 3, Decimator of the Provinces’s mana value remains 10.

  4. 2025-01-24

    If you sacrifice a creature with X generic mana in its mana cost, that X is 0.

  5. 2025-01-24

    Once you begin to cast a spell with emerge, no player may take actions until you’re done. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice.

  6. 2025-01-24

    You may sacrifice a creature with mana value greater than or equal to the emerge cost. If you do, you’ll pay only the colored mana component of the emerge cost.

  7. 2025-01-24

    A creature’s mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner (unless that creature is the back face of a double-faced card, is a melded permanent, or is copying something else; see below). If the mana cost includes X generic mana, X is 0. If it’s a single-faced card with no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it’s an animated land, for example), its mana value is 0. Ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) that were paid as the creature was cast.

  8. 2025-01-24

    If you cast a spell for another cost “rather than paying its mana cost,” such as an emerge cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.

  9. 2025-01-24

    You may sacrifice a creature with a mana value of 0, such as a token creature that’s not a copy of another permanent, to cast a spell for its emerge cost. You’ll just pay the full emerge cost with no reduction.

  10. 2025-01-24

    Colored mana components of emerge costs can’t be reduced with emerge.

  11. 2025-01-24

    The mana value of the back face of a double-faced card is the mana value of its front face. The mana value of a melded permanent is the sum of the mana values of its front faces. A creature that’s a copy of either has a mana value of 0.

  12. 2025-01-24

    The creature chosen to be sacrificed is still on the battlefield as the cost of the emerge spell is determined and as you activate mana abilities to cast the emerge spell. Its abilities may affect the spell’s cost, be activated to generate mana, and so on. However, if it has an ability that triggers when a spell is cast, it will have been sacrificed before that ability can trigger.

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