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Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter

Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Spirit

Disturb solved a specific tension in common-slot creatures: how to make a fragile two-drop feel like two cards without letting it snowball. The front half is a ground-bound Human that dies to anything, but the graveyard is a second launch pad, letting the body come back from the yard as a flying Spirit for a color-shifted price. The design discipline is in what the back half gives up. Cast from the graveyard, the Spirit exiles itself when it would die again, so the second cast is genuinely a second cast and not the start of a loop; you get the card twice and no more. That single restriction is what lets the effect live at common, where an unlimited recursion engine never could. The two faces cost the same in raw mana, but they buy different things: the Human is a plain body that eats spot removal early, while the Spirit trades a point of power for evasion and arrives later, so the same physical card offers a beater now or an air threat once the graveyard fills. It reads as filler and plays as attrition insurance: a creature that punishes an opponent for spending removal on the Human, then quietly refuses to stay dead the first time.

Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter (mid)
MID · #42common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

Disturb 1 generic manaBlue mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) // Flying If Hook-Haunt Drifter would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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