Primordial Gnawer

Creature — Insect Horror

Illustrated by Maxime Minard

F

EDHREC Rank #20,082

When this creature dies, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Cave crawlers devour anything from plant matter to solid rock, but they prefer fresh meat.

Rulings (9)

If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.

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If the discovered card has X generic mana in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

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If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.

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