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A-Devoted Grafkeeper // A-Departed Soulkeeper

Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Spirit

The Arena-only rebalance of a self-mill enabler that was always meant to be spent twice, not held. The front face fills its own graveyard on entry, then attaches a tempo tax to your recursion: while it sits on the battlefield, every spell you cast from your graveyard taps down a creature you don't control, so each replayed threat also strips a blocker or freezes an attacker. That ability lives and dies with the body, though; it reads the battlefield, so it only fires while the front face is present. Disturb is the card's second act, and it comes at a real price: 1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana is more than the front face costs to hard-cast, so the flier out of the graveyard is a premium, not a discount. The self-exile clause on the back face is the metering mechanism that keeps disturb honest: cast it transformed and it exiles rather than dying, which shuts the door on a third loop and stops a two-mana body from becoming a permanent recursion engine. The interplay is subtler than a clean combo. The tap trigger wants the front face on the field feeding the yard while other graveyard spells resolve; the disturbed flier is the payoff you're building toward, not a trigger source itself. It's a compact statement of a recursion philosophy where value comes from spending a card across two windows and each reuse is fenced by an exile clause rather than paid for in mana alone.

A-Devoted Grafkeeper // A-Departed Soulkeeper (mid)
MID · #A-218uncommon
Oracle Text

Rules text

When Devoted Grafkeeper enters, mill four cards. Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, tap target creature you don't control. Disturb 1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) // Flying If Departed Soulkeeper would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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