Recruitment Officer
Creature — Human Soldier
: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value 3 or less from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #12641
Recruitment Officer is a one-mana 1/1 that filters your deck for creatures with power 2 or less — which in Human tribal or token strategies means it finds almost everything you want. The floor is low, but Katilda, Dawnhart Prime lists run it because every Human that enters taps for mana, and finding the next one for a single white mana is exactly the kind of card-advantage engine white creature decks have historically lacked.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
Katilda, Dawnhart Prime converts every Human into a mana source, so Recruitment Officer's ability to dig for low-power Humans at instant speed turns a single activation into mana acceleration for the following turn — it's card selection that feeds the engine directly.
Myrel, Shield of Argive
Myrel, Shield of Argive rewards going wide with Soldier tokens and locks opponents out on their turn, and Recruitment Officer checks both boxes: it's a Soldier that finds more small creatures to widen the board while Myrel's lockout effect is active.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Recruitment Officer earns its slot specifically in white creature-based strategies — Human tribal, Soldier tribal, and go-wide token builds — where the density of low-power creatures makes each activation reliably find a hit. Outside Commander, it has seen fringe Modern play in white weenie shells, though its ceiling there is capped by the fact that it doesn't apply pressure on its own. Pioneer offers a similar story: Recruitment Officer is a serviceable card-selection tool in aggressive white decks, but it rarely makes the cut over higher-impact one-drops. Legacy's card pool is deep enough that it's almost never the right choice. The card's real home is Commander, where 100-card singleton decks make consistent filtering more valuable and tribal synergies push its ceiling higher.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Recruitment Officer is bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. Bulk rares with consistent Commander demand rarely spike dramatically, so don't expect this to move much, but at this price the question is never whether it's worth it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.