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The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart

mythic Legendary Artifact // Sorcery — Adventure

[The Arkenstone] —

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card.

[Seek the Heart] — —

Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Then this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

B+ Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 60.3% +4.1 vs average 5,032 games

Win rates and picks

57.9% 11,422 games
Average pick ()
1.1

By deck

  • Draw Two 64.4% 1,348 games
  • Goblin Army 57.2% 958 games
  • Dwarves & Equipment 60.9% 940 games

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

Reviews

+1/+1 to your whole team and an extra card at the end of every turn makes The Arkenstone a pretty broken for any deck in The Hobbit. It's technically an adventure card, but Seek the Heart just isn't that good of a spell to spend 3 mana on. It'll be a lot more relevant when you draw it late in the game, but when you play it on , you should probably just skip the adventure and jam this on turn 5.

I haven't valued the white mode on The Arkenstone much, to the point that I wouldn't even bother playing an white tapland (let alone any Plains) just for the activation. Be wary of Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern if you can help it, because that's one of the only actual answers to this. You could also theoretically get blown out by Thorin's Last Stand on this mid-combat.

How to draft it

Roles in each deck

  • Goblin Army Gets you extra cards

    Seek the Heart needs white mana, so Goblin Army gets only the 5-mana , which gives your creatures +1/+1 and draws a card at each of your end steps. Without its other half it adds no body on the turn you cast it.

    How to play it

    Cast it on turn 5 or later with creatures already out, since it grows every and the .

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  • Dwarves & Equipment Finisher

    Seek the Heart ( ), the on The Arkenstone, finds any creature card in your library, and this deck has good ones to fetch: Fíli, Kíli, Dáin Ironfoot and the mythic Thorin, Mountain-king. The Arkenstone itself is a 5-mana legendary that gives your creatures +1/+1 and draws a card at each of your end steps.

    How to play it

    Drawn early, The Arkenstone is a turn-5 play. Late, or when you need one card, cast Seek the Heart first and The Arkenstone from afterward.

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  • Draw Two Finisher

    Your creatures get +1/+1 and you draw a card at the beginning of each of your end steps, so it wins long games. Draw Two gets more from it than any other deck, because on a turn when nothing else drew you an extra card, the end-step draw is card two and grows Apothecary.

    How to play it

    On , skip the and cast the on turn 5. Seek the Heart (3 mana, needs white) finds a creature such as Bard the Bowman or a Bilbo, so save that line for a late game with spare mana.

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