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Goblin Recruiter

Creature — Goblin1 generic manaRed mana

A 1/1 for two that does nothing on board and everything to your library: this is the rare tutor that stacks rather than draws, and the distinction is the whole point. Most search effects end with the chosen card in hand, ready to cast; this one piles any number of Goblins on top in whatever order you choose, which means you still have to spend draw steps or other draw effects to actually pull them down. That sounds like a downside until you pair it with something that dumps the stacked library straight onto the battlefield, at which point the ordering becomes the payoff: the recruiter arranges the deck, something else cashes it in. The trigger is a combo enabler, not a value piece, because what you gain is sequencing rather than card advantage. Its narrow scope is what holds the power in check: it finds only Goblins and only puts them on top, so it is dead weight outside a tribe deck and a near-deterministic setup engine inside one. It also shuffles before stacking, which quietly resets the rest of the library: the Goblins you did not pick go back into the random pile beneath your hand-picked stack, so the arrangement sits cleanly on top. The body is incidental, the trigger is the card, and the design has aged into one of the cleaner statements of what separates a tutor that fetches from a tutor that arranges.

Goblin Recruiter (mb2)
MB2 · #193uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $7.14
Foil: $25.77
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, search your library for any number of Goblin 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
Banned
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
Banned
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
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