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Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)

Malevolent Hermit

{1}{U}

Creature — Human Wizard

{U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}. Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Benevolent Geist

Creature — Spirit Wizard

Flying Noncreature spells you control can't be countered. If Benevolent Geist would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Plays as
Can't Be CounteredCounterspellFodder
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal

Used in 4 known combosEDHREC #4,267

Versions

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Rulings

7 · latest Sep 24, 2021
  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    "Disturb [cost]" means "You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost."

  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up.

  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards.

  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    If you copy a permanent spell cast this way (perhaps with a card like Double Major), the copy becomes a token that's a copy of the card's back face, even though it isn't itself a double-faced card.

  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    The back face of each card with disturb has an ability that instructs its controller to exile if it would be put into a graveyard from anywhere. This includes going to the graveyard from the stack, so if the spell is countered after you cast it using the disturb ability, it will be put into exile.

  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a disturb cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of a spell cast using disturb is determined by the mana cost on the front face of the card, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was. (This is a special rule that applies only to nonmodal double faced-cards, including ones with disturb.)

  • WotCSep 24, 2021

    When you cast a spell using a card's disturb ability, the card is put onto the stack with its back face up. The resulting spell has all the characteristics of that face.