Patient Instructor
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A strong common that filters your draw and often supplies two Human bodies for three mana, with vigilance as a useful bonus. It is at its best in WU Recruit, where it enables both go-wide and second-card-drawn payoffs.
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Gameplay notes
Cast it before combat when you have second-draw payoffs. Discard a nonland card whenever the 1/1 token is worth more than the card, but do not throw away an important spell merely to maximize recruit.
Key synergies
Patient Instructor is a Human that enables Bard's Company's flash clause, and its recruit token gives the Company's anthem another body to enhance.
Bard replaces the recruit draw with two cards when it is beyond the first draw of the turn, while only one card is discarded; he also doubles the Human Soldier token created by recruit.
Chapter I can discard Patient Instructor, then chapter II returns it and retriggers its recruit ability, producing another draw-discard and potentially another Human Soldier token.
Casting Patient Instructor before combat makes its recruit draw your second card of the turn, turning on Toymaker's +3/+0 and first strike trigger while adding another possible attacker.
Each chapter can blink Patient Instructor, repeatedly retriggering recruit for additional filtering and Human Soldier tokens.
Patient Instructor's recruit draw commonly becomes the second card drawn that turn, immediately triggering Bard while potentially adding a Human token that can receive his counter.
Patient Instructor supplies a creature and can recruit an additional Human token, efficiently adding two potential bodies to the Eagle's attack bonus.
The Instructor's recruit can trigger the Councillors immediately after your normal draw, and both Humans fit the recruit deck that benefits from the resulting Human token.
The Instructor's recruit can supply a Soldier token for Belladonna while adding another inexpensive body to benefit from her team-wide +1/+1 counters.
Returning Patient Instructor saves it or upgrades it into a delayed 4/4 Bird, then replaying it provides another recruit trigger and potentially another Human token.
Patient Instructor's enters-the-battlefield recruit draws a card to place a +1/+1 counter on Ravenhill Flock while adding a useful body and potentially a Human token.