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Magic: The Gathering

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
$0.12est. via TCGplayer
104,743cards tracked
0copies listed for sale
Card face

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.
Formats

Where you can play it

  • StandardLegal
  • PioneerLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • VintageLegal
  • CommanderLegal
  • PauperLegal
  • BrawlLegal
  • HistoricLegal
  • TimelessLegal
  • Penny DreadfulLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

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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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