Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition

Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition

{W}{U}Legendary Creature — Human Soldier // Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier

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Lifelink

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

Disturb {2}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

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Flying

Whenever one or more creature cards are put into graveyards from anywhere, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

If Dennick would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

What it does

Tagged as Card draw · Recursion · Lifegain · Graveyard hate — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Get it in a precon

One preconstructed deck includes this card.

Keyword reminders

Flying. This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach. · CR 702.9 Read more →
Lifelink. Damage dealt by this also causes its controller to gain that much life. · CR 702.15 Read more →

Official rulings

  1. 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)
  2. The second ability of Dennick, Pious Apprentice affects only spells and abilities that actually target cards in graveyards. Spells and abilities that affect cards in graveyards without targeting them may still affect them, move them to other zones, and so on. (2021-09-24)
  3. "Disturb [cost]" means "You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost." (2021-09-24)
  4. A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up. (2021-09-24)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards. (2021-09-24)
  8. 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)

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