Patient Instructor
The Hobbit 162 • common
- Set
- The Hobbit
- Collector number
- 162
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana or blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue · White
- Artist
- Joshua Raphael
- Market price
- $0.12
What it does
Vigilance
When this creature enters, recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.)
Lake-town was much diminished from its old grandeur, but still the Long Lake provided for all their needs.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Patient Instructor is a card originating from the 2003 The Hobbit collectible card game, produced by Decipher Inc. during the height of the popularity surrounding Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. The game was designed to immerse players in the narrative of Middle-earth, utilizing stills from the films and original artwork to capture the tone and character dynamics of the source material.
The card’s design features art directed to mirror the aesthetic established by the films, emphasizing the thematic depth of mentorship and guidance essential to the storytelling. Like much of the set, it was intended to serve both as a functional game piece for deck-building strategies and as a visual collectible for fans of the franchise, though it remains a niche item that reflects the specific era of early 2000s licensed card gaming.
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