First printed in Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (2021)
Baithook Angler 

Creature — Human Peasant
Disturb (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Geor was determined to stay out until he got a bite from something big.
2/1
Hook-Haunt Drifter
Creature — Spirit
Flying
If Hook-Haunt Drifter would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Even in death, he casts his lines, forever fishing for reasons long forgotten.
1/2
- Illustrated by
- Uriah Voth
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- 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.)
- "Disturb [cost]" means "You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost."
- 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.
- Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards.
- A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up.
- 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.
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
10 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Cloud Key + Dress Down + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Chromatic Orrery + Humility
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Humility + Mycosynth Lattice
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Mycosynth Lattice + Overwhelming Splendor
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Chromatic Orrery + Overwhelming Splendor
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Dress Down + Mycosynth Lattice
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Chromatic Orrery + Dress Down
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Dress Down + Phyrexian Altar + Planar Gate
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Dress Down + Kefnet's Monument + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite black mana, Infinite death triggers…: Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter + Composite Golem + Infinite Reflection