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Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter

Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Spirit

Disturb {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Innistrad: Double Feature
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#25187
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Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter card art
Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter generates a persistent flying threat that returns to the battlefield when it dies, creating a loop engine whenever you can repeatedly kill and revive it — the cost is that the whole machine collapses the moment your opponent resolves Dress Down or any similar static-ability suppression. It's a narrow combo piece that does little outside its specific lines.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer — the two-card loop it enables is too slow and fragile against interaction-heavy environments where a single removal spell breaks the chain. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home, where evasive recursive creatures carry more weight, though it still lacks the raw efficiency of the format's top threats. In Commander, it lands in dedicated sacrifice or reanimator shells that want a cheap, repeatable death trigger — commanders that tax or reward each death event get real mileage out of the Drifter half looping back.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up without thinking about it when building a combo shell. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new commander specifically breaks the loop wide open.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.