Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt
Creature — Human Wizard // Creature — Spirit Wizard
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Disturb 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #23118
Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt loots on entry and then haunts a creature to do it again on death — two triggers for one card slot. The cost is that neither half is remotely efficient on its own, so you run it because the combo payoff with something like Infinite Reflection justifies the mediocrity.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt — the graveyard and ETB synergies it wants are baked into the format, and 100-card singleton rewards cards that do two things. In Modern and Legacy it's simply outclassed: loot effects at three mana don't compete, and the haunt trigger requires your opponent's creature to die before you see a second use. Pioneer has the same problem. Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt is a Commander-specific card wearing a constructed legal stamp.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Infinite ReflectionComposite GolemOverwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt
Infinite black mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite green mana; Infinite LTB; Infinite red mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite white mana
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Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt sits firmly in bulk territory. Bulk dual-faced commons rarely appreciate unless a combo or theme pushes demand, and nothing on the horizon does that here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.