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Lake-town Lookout

common Creature — Human Scout

When this creature , . (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature .)

D+ Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 52.5% −3.7 vs average 9,529 games

Win rates and picks

52.0% 17,378 games
Average pick ()
10.9

By deck

  • Draw Two 53.1% 6,952 games
  • Dwarves & Equipment 50.7% 1,763 games

Win rates from , 323,114 games. This card is compared with the set average (56.2%).

Reviews

If you end up discarding a nonland card to this ability, then Lake-town Lookout essentially functions like a Doomed Traveler, a very good card in its own right. Still, it's not always going to be quite that good on the board. It just looks like a reasonable 1-drop that you're probably not unhappy to play.

How to draft it

Roles in each deck

  • Draw Two Early play

    Its comes when it , usually blocking on the opponent's turn, so it rarely gives you card two. As a 1-mana 1/1 it seldom trades with anything.

    How to play it

    Leave it out if you have enough . As a Human it turns on Bard's Company's , and as a chump blocker (one that blocks a bigger creature only to stop its damage) it trades a 1/1 for a card.

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