Blightbeetle

As of Aug 8, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Blightbeetle is $0.39 (PLST #M20-87), and the most expensive is $3.90 (M20 #87, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.39, flat over 7 days, up 8.3% over 30 days, down 2.5% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $0.42 (2026).

Blightbeetle has 2 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes.

PLST #M20-87

$0.39

CK $0.99 / $0.30 23%

MP $0.15 48 avail

M20 #87

$0.43 +10%

CK $1.29 / $0.26 40%

MP $0.30 367 avail

M20 #87 Foil

$3.90 +900%

CK $4.49 / $1.80 54%

MP $4.78 1 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $1.80 cash for M20 #87 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 60% (wide).

• Jul 12, 2019 Blightbeetle doesn’t remove any +1/+1 counters already on creatures your opponents control.
• Jul 12, 2019 Creatures your opponents control won’t receive +1/+1 counters as they enter the battlefield.
• Jul 12, 2019 If a replacement effect allows a player to modify or replace an event by putting +1/+1 counters on a creature affected by Blightbeetle, that player may apply that replacement effect, but they won’t get counters. If the original event is entirely replaced (such as by applying Vigor’s replacement effect), the entire original event simply doesn’t happen.
• Jul 12, 2019 If the cost of an ability or an additional cost of a spell requires putting +1/+1 counters on a creature affected by Blightbeetle, that cost can’t be paid. If a resolving spell or ability says that a player may put +1/+1 counters on that creature, that player can’t choose to do so.

Blightbeetle has been reprinted 3 times.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment
PLST #M20-87	2022-04-29	Uncommon	Standard
M20 #87	2019-07-12	Uncommon	Standard
M20 #87	2019-07-12	Uncommon	Standard

Blightbeetle is the #7,207 most-played card on EDHREC, up 22 places over the last 30 days.