Card text
Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Grub.
//
Whenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.
Grub, Storied MatriarchBorderless
Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock // Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior
Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · 289
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Mana cost
{2}{B}
Power / toughness
2/1
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Card text
Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Grub.
//
Whenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Grub, Storied Matriarch
This page covers the borderless printing of Grub, Storied Matriarch (289), a Black Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock // Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior from Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL). It is printed at Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Menace. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
We track no other printing of 289 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Lorwyn Eclipsed is a main expansion, released January 2026.
Menace Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Grub. // Menace Whenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token." At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.
Card details
- Card number
- 289
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 23 January 2026
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Borderless
- Type line
- Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock // Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black / Red
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Power / toughness
- 2/1
- Finish
- Non-foil
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