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Beloved Beggar // Generous Soul

Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Spirit

A 0/4 for two mana is a wall and nothing more: the front half asks nothing, holds the ground against early attackers, and defers its entire payoff to the graveyard. Disturb turns the card into a two-installment investment where the second payment is both larger and later. Pay six mana from the graveyard and the card returns as Generous Soul, a 4/4 with flying and vigilance, and with its death replaced by exile. That self-exile clause is the design discipline: disturb here grants exactly one back-side cast, so the card cashes out its full value in a single window, then leaves for good rather than becoming a body you loop. The transformation is a genuine gear change, not a cosmetic flip. The front is a defensive brick, a blocker that never threatens; the back is an actual clock that swings and still guards on the way back, trading the ground lane for the air. Vigilance on a 4/4 with flying is doing real work, letting the back half attack and hold up as a blocker in the same turn, which is precisely the pivot the early wall could never manage. Structurally, disturb does the job flashback does for instants and sorceries, spending a permanent twice from two different zones, but tuned so the graveyard cast is the upgrade rather than the echo: the first life stalls the game, the second one ends it.

Beloved Beggar // Generous Soul (mid)
MID · #3uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

Disturb 4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) // Flying, vigilance If Generous Soul 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
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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