The Hobbit (HOB)

Recruit

The rule

Draw a card, then discard a card; if the discarded card is not a land, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier token.

In play

It turns an extra land or a dead card into a token and filters your hand: the more cards you have that trigger it, the more consistent your deck becomes.

The archetypes that lean on it

The other mechanics of the set

The Recruit cards, ranked

Ranked by win rate when the card is in hand (the cards with few games follow, by pick rating).

  1. 1. Bard's Company63.8 %7.0
  2. 2. Celebrate the Mountain-king62.0 %7.4
  3. 3. Great Gilded Boat62.0 %7.4
  4. 4. The Mountain-king's Return61.3 %8.3
  5. 5. The Queen of Dale58.5 %7.2
  6. 6. Patient Instructor58.4 %5.8
  7. 7. Long Lake Nuisance58.0 %5.6
  8. 8. Esgaroth Garrison56.7 %5.0
  9. 9. Sound the Trumpets55.4 %6.0
  10. 10. Lake-town Lookout51.7 %2.0