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Ardent Recruit

First printed in Mirrodin Besieged (2011)

All 2 prints

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  • Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia (TD2) #4, 2011 (digital)
  • Mirrodin Besieged (MBS) #2, 2011

Ardent Recruit

Creature — Human Soldier

Metalcraft — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

In the last 30 days 0.2% of Pauper decks played it (4 of 1908). Most played in Affinity.

Legality

Constructed

  • Standard Not legal
  • Pioneer Not legal
  • Modern Legal
  • Legacy Legal
  • Vintage Legal
  • Pauper Legal
  • Future Standard Not legal
  • Historic Not legal
  • Timeless Not legal
  • Alchemy Not legal
  • Penny Dreadful Not legal
  • Premodern Not legal
  • Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

  • Gladiator Not legal

Commander formats

  • Commander Legal
  • Duel Commander Legal
  • Pauper Commander Legal
  • PreDH Legal
  • Tiny Leaders Legal
  • Oathbreaker Legal
  • Brawl Not legal
  • Standard Brawl Not legal
  • Competitive Brawl Not legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta
share of the archetype in the format
Play it
decks of the archetype that play this card
Together
decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift
how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Pauper Other periods →

In 4 of 1908 decks (0.2%).

Share of decks
0.2%
▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-06: 0.0% 2026-08-13: 0.0% 2026-08-20: 0.4% 2026-08-27: 0.0% 2026-09-03: 0.0% 2026-09-10: 0.3% 2026-09-17: 0.0% 2026-09-24: 0.6% 2026-10-01: 0.3% 2026-10-08: 0.0% 2026-10-15: 0.0% 2026-10-22: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
4
4 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
4.0
in the main deck
Win rate
61%
2 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Affinity 9.4% 1%
Selesnya Walkers 0.7% 7%
WU (unclassified) 0.3% 20%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Springleaf Drum100%59.6
Leonardo, Big Brother100%18.3
Novice Inspector100%17.2
Thraben Inspector100%14.2
Ancient Den100%10.0
Razortide Bridge75%13.1
Moon-Circuit Hacker75%10.8
Myr Enforcer75%9.4
Utrom Monitor75%9.1
Dispatch75%8.0

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Affinity
NMT_Sco94 in Pauper Challenge 32		 5-2
71%
WU
Montij in Pauper Challenge 16		 3-3
50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Affinity
NMT_Sco94, 		4 main #8
5-2
Selesnya Walkers
Anthony B, 		4 main #11
2-2
Affinity
NMT_Sco94, 		4 main 5-0
WU
Montij, 		4 main #8
3-3

No recent decks in: Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander.