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Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist

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4 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist, Innistrad: Double Feature printing
Innistrad: Double Feature DBL · No. 61 2022-01-28

Card text

{1}{U}
Creature — Human Wizard // Creature — Spirit 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.) // Flying Noncreature spells you control can't be countered. If Benevolent Geist would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Keywords: Flying, Transform, Disturb
EDHREC rank #4445 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 4 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

In these decks

1 public deck plays Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist.

Official rulings

7 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

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.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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.)

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist, Innistrad: Double Feature printing
Innistrad: Double Feature
DBL · #61
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Chimera Gaming · Condition LP
Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
MID · #61
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Black Knight Games · Condition LP
Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
PMID · #61s
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Face to Face Games · Condition LP · Foil