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Rural Recruit

Creature — Human Peasant3 generic manaGreen mana

Training carries a chicken-and-egg problem: the mechanic only rewards a small creature when it swings next to something with greater power, so a lone trainee needs a bigger partner already sitting on the board or it just attacks as a plain body. This card supplies its own partner. The 3/1 Boar it makes on arrival is the enabler; the 1/1 that made it is the beneficiary. Send both into combat and the training trigger fires immediately, converting the Boar's power advantage into a permanent counter on the smaller creature. That makes it a self-contained package rather than a card leaning on the rest of the deck to cooperate. The Boar's 3/1 line is deliberately brittle, hitting hard while dying to almost anything, which caps how durable the pair can be. Structurally this is a body-splitting design, one card producing two attackers, a shape green reaches for whenever it wants an aggressive common to reward wide, forward-leaning boards. Because the base is a 1/1, every counter it accumulates is upside earned in combat rather than value printed on the card, so the ceiling depends entirely on how long the Boar (or a later, larger creature) survives to keep feeding it.

Rural Recruit (dbl)
DBL · #483common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) When this creature enters, create a 3/1 green Boar creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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