Beetle, Legacy Criminal

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Beetle is a 4cmc 3/3 flyer whose only non-combat ability is a one-shot graveyard exile activation: pay {1}{U}, exile this card from the graveyard at sorcery speed to put a +1/+1 counter on any creature and grant it flying until end of turn. The flying body is passable but the graveyard ability is a once-per-game utility effect — too narrow and restrictive to make a meaningful competitive impact. Finds minor homes in +1/+1 counters or voltron strategies where evasion-granting from the bin has marginal value.

• Beetle's graveyard ability is not a recursive engine — it exiles itself as the cost, making it a strict once-per-game effect that the sim should treat as a one-shot rather than a repeatable counter source.

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• The sorcery-speed restriction and self-exile cost make this significantly weaker than similar graveyard-activated cards; opponents have a full main phase to respond or simply wait out the window.

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• EDHREC rank: #17,239