Celebrate the Mountain-king
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Premium temporary removal that answers nearly any nonland permanent while also recruiting, usually providing card selection and a 1/1 Human if you can discard a nonland card. Its main weakness is that enchantment removal returns the exiled permanent.
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Gameplay notes
Cast this before combat when you have second-card-drawn payoffs. Prefer discarding a nonland card when the Human token matters, but do not throw away a valuable spell merely to make a 1/1. If the opponent has enchantment removal, avoid relying on the exile effect as a permanent answer to a dangerous enters-the-battlefield permanent.
Key synergies
Bard replaces Celebrate's Recruit draw with two cards, and if a nonland card is discarded, he doubles the resulting Human Soldier token, turning the Recruit rider into substantial value.
After your normal draw for the turn, Celebrate's Recruit draw is your second card, triggering Bard to place a +1/+1 counter and grant lifelink while the exile effect clears a blocker.
Casting Celebrate before combat supplies the second draw needed for Toymaker, removes a blocker, and can create the extra creature that receives Toymaker's +3/+0 and first strike.
Celebrate can create a Human Soldier that Bard's Company immediately boosts, while removing a blocker helps the enlarged go-wide board attack effectively.
Gone Fishing can blink Celebrate the Mountain-king to reset its temporary exile effect, choose a new opposing nonland permanent, and trigger recruit again.
Its enters-the-battlefield recruit is normally your second draw for the turn, triggering the Councillors while the recruit discard and resulting mill both advance the seven-card graveyard threshold.
Its recruit can create a Soldier token to trigger Belladonna, while the looting helps find further token makers and the spell supplies interaction without abandoning the go-wide plan.
Its Recruit trigger can create a Human Soldier token, ensuring Lake-town has a legal target and letting you convert a disposable 1/1 into a 3/3.
Celebrate the Mountain-king can recruit a Human token while removing a blocker, both increasing the Eagle's attack bonus and making its aerial attack harder to race.
Celebrate the Mountain-king recruits as it enters, so its draw grows Ravenhill Flock while the enchantment removes a blocker that could interfere with the race.