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◇ Catalog #62

Brain Maggot

jou·#62·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Min Yum

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May '14

12 yr ago

Value

$0.31+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.32 · low $0.29

NM$0.31

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.29–$0.33modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.31low $0.03range 933.3%n 47

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TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #15,469 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.41

Nonfoil$0.31

Gameplay

Enchantment Creature — Insect

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.

1/1

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 4

2014-04-26wotc

The exiled card returns to its owner's hand immediately after Brain Maggot leaves the battlefield. Nothing happens between the two events, including state-based actions.

2014-04-26wotc

In a multiplayer game, if Brain Maggot's owner leaves the game, the exiled card will return to its owner's hand. Because the one-shot effect that returns the card isn't an ability that goes on the stack, it won't cease to exist along with the leaving player's spells and abilities on the stack.

2014-04-26wotc

Brain Maggot's ability causes a zone change with a duration, a new style of ability that's somewhat reminiscent of older cards like Tidehollow Sculler. However, unlike Tidehollow Sculler, Brain Maggot has a single ability that creates two one-shot effects: one that exiles the nonland card when the ability resolves, and another that returns the exiled card to its owner's hand immediately after Brain Maggot leaves the battlefield.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.31. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.31 across 47 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from JOU — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #62 of *Journey into Nyx*, the set that shipped alongside the May 2014 Journey into Nyx release.

Card type: Enchantment Creature — Insect, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B} (2 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #15,469 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Min Yum. Rarix catalogs 203 other cards credited to this artist.