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Ragged Recluse // Odious Witch

Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Human Warlock

The transform trigger is the whole design lever here: the front face flips only if you discarded a card during the turn, which quietly asks the deck around it to want to empty its hand anyway. That is a clever piece of conditional plumbing, because discard is usually a cost you pay for something else (looting, madness, a rummaging effect), and this creature converts that incidental cost into an upgrade. The payoff on the back is a lifedrain attacker, so the card rewards a build that leaks cards on its own timing rather than one that has to strand a card just to satisfy the flip. The friction is that the condition is checked at your end step and the discard has to happen the same turn, so it does not passively transform; the deck has to be actively churning through cards or the front face just sits there as an ordinary two-power body. It sits in the long line of Innistrad-style double-faced creatures that gate a modest upgrade behind a resource condition, and it belongs to the more workmanlike end of that lineage: a common-rarity payoff for a discard-and-madness shell, not a bomb. The Odious Witch side is small but recurring value, chipping at the opponent while topping you off each combat, which matters most in a grind where two life a swing adds up.

Ragged Recluse // Odious Witch (dbl)
DBL · #394common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your end step, if you discarded a card this turn, transform this creature. // Whenever this creature attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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