Esgaroth Garrison
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A strong go-wide five-drop whose 5 toughness makes it a reliable blocker while its power scales with your board. Recruit provides card selection and often an extra Human token, making the Garrison both an enabler and payoff for WU Humans.
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Gameplay notes
When possible, discard a nonland card to Recruit: the resulting token both adds a body and raises the Garrison's power by one. It is much weaker on an empty board, so preserve expendable creatures or tokens before casting it unless you need the 5-toughness blocker immediately.
Key synergies
Bard's Company gives the Garrison and its recruited token +1/+1, while its repeated Recruit triggers create more creatures that increase the Garrison's power.
Bard doubles the extra card drawn by Recruit and doubles the Human token created after discarding a nonland card; both additional tokens also increase the Garrison's power.
The Garrison contributes itself and potentially a recruited Human token to the Eagle's attack bonus, while both cards turn the same go-wide board into large threats.
The Queen's repeated recruit tokens increase Esgaroth Garrison's power, while the Garrison adds another recruit body and another creature to the go-wide board.
The Garrison's variable power can easily crew the Boat by itself, and each attack with the Boat can recruit another token that permanently increases the Garrison's power.
The Garrison recruits and rewards maintaining many creatures, setting up the wide battlefield where Thorin's Last Stand produces its largest damage swing.
A developed Recruit board gives Esgaroth Garrison high power; equipping it to Glamdring converts that power directly into a large generic-mana reduction for your spells.
The Garrison's enters-the-battlefield recruit supplies an extra draw after the draw step, triggering Bard, and the resulting Human token provides another useful target for Bard's counter and lifelink.
Blinking Esgaroth Garrison retriggers recruit, potentially creates another Human token, and thereby also increases the Garrison's power.
The Garrison's recruit supplies the extra draw that triggers the Councillors and can create a Human token; the Councillors also count as a creature toward the Garrison's power.
Creating X Dwarf tokens immediately adds X power to Esgaroth Garrison and supplies a wide board that its recruit token can further enlarge, making the Garrison a much more threatening attacker.
Blinking Esgaroth Garrison repeatedly retriggers recruit, providing filtering and potentially another Human token that also increases the Garrison's power.
Its recruit can create a Soldier for Belladonna, and its power scales with the wide creature board that Belladonna can permanently strengthen after three token entries.
Bouncing and replaying the Garrison repeats its recruit trigger, while the Bird tokens and any recruited Human increase its power by expanding your creature count.