Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt

Disturb is at its best when a creature's death becomes a discount rather than a wall, and this pair reads that mechanic as a loot engine. The front half is a 3/2 that filters one card as it enters, then does the honest work of a three-drop: blocking, trading, feeding the yard with the cards it discards. What it leaves behind is the payload. Archive Haunt comes back for , a full mana more than the front half cost, but it returns with flying and a loot trigger stapled to every attack rather than to combat damage, so it filters a card the moment it turns sideways whether or not it connects. There is a leash on the engine: once the Spirit would hit a graveyard it exiles instead, so the repeatable filtering ends after a single life. That asymmetry does the balancing work. Both the enter trigger and the attack trigger are card-neutral selection, but the back half is one evasive threat's worth of loots, not a recurring machine. Structurally it folds the graveyard-fueled filtering that older looters ran through flashback or unearth into an evasive attacker; the loot triggers stock the graveyard themselves, and the only thing Disturb asks for is that this card be in it. The two-payments-two-bodies math is what makes it sturdier than a lone 3/2 ever looks.