Patient Instructor — ruling 1

Once a spell or ability that causes you to recruit begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Any responses made to the spell or ability must be made before you draw, discard, and potentially create a token.

Patient Instructor : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Patient Instructor is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

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

How it works : Patient Instructor

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1June 29, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
Once a spell or ability that causes you to recruit begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Any responses made to the spell or ability must be made before you draw, discard, and potentially create a token.
No other card is named in this ruling.

Related cards and tokens

Human Soldier

Legal formats

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