Golgari Keyword: Scavenge

The black-green guild is the Golgari Swarm. The Golgari revere the natural cycles of life and death. Scavenge is a new ability found on creature cards that allows the living to eat the dead and become stronger.

Zanikev Locust
5 ManaBlack Mana
Creature — Insect
3/3
Flying
Scavenge 2 ManaBlack ManaBlack Mana(2 ManaBlack ManaBlack Mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card’s power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)



The official rules for scavenge are as follows:

702.95. Scavenge

702.95a Scavenge is an activated ability that functions only while the card with scavenge is in a graveyard. “Scavenge [cost]” means “[Cost], Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card’s power on target creature. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.”

Exiling the creature card with scavenge is part of the cost of activating the scavenge ability. Once the ability is activated and the cost is paid, it’s too late to stop the ability from being activated by trying to remove the creature card from the graveyard.