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Dwarven Recruiter

Creature — Dwarf2 generic manaRed mana

Dwarves were never enough of a tribe to warrant a tutor, which is exactly the joke this card has been telling for two decades. The effect itself is a stripped-down Worldly Tutor pointed at a creature type that, early on, barely existed: a handful of artifact-era oddities and whatever the current set happened to print. You pay three mana and a 2/2 body to stack any number of Dwarf cards on top of your library, an effect of genuine power gated behind a subject pool too thin to use. The mechanism (a flexible, scalable top-of-library tutor) reads like the engine piece of a tribal deck that no one ever bothered to build around: the design is sound; the tribe simply lagged the tool by years. What has changed is the denominator. Every Dwarf printed since widens what this recruits, and the "any number" clause means it scales with the pool rather than locking to a single fetch, so the card quietly improves with each set that adds to the type without ever being reprinted to do so. It is the rare tutor whose ceiling is set not by its own text but by the slow accumulation of creatures sharing one word on the type line.

Dwarven Recruiter (ody)
ODY · #186uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $3.08
Foil: $56.66
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, search your library for any number of Dwarf cards, reveal them, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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