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A three-mana 2/2 is under-rate; recruit's filtering and conditional token offer only speculative value without a known token or graveyard shell.

Could be wrong if Unrevealed recruit, sacrifice, or graveyard payoffs could make its ETB package a real Standard engine.

Greasefang can use recruit to bin a nonland, but a three-mana setup creature is slow and likely inferior to cheaper, more focused enablers.

Could be wrong if A resilient white-based discard shell that values the extra body could support it as a recurring inclusion.

It technically supplies a discard outlet and bodies, but paying three mana at sorcery speed is a poor setup turn for Modern reanimation.

Could be wrong if A new payoff for disposable Human tokens or creature-based looting could create a niche shell.

Legacy's cheap cantrips and efficient discard outlets leave little room for a three-mana 2/2 that provides no actual card advantage.

Could be wrong if A novel creature-combo use for both the loot and token could give it a narrow specialist role.

Ephemerate can reuse recruit for filtering and tokens, but this remains below-rate beside Pauper's stronger card-advantage ETB creatures.

Could be wrong if Dense sacrifice or graveyard payoffs at common could make the conditional token substantially more valuable.

Blink decks can repeatedly filter and build token material, but a card-neutral three-mana 2/2 is replaceable outside dedicated token or graveyard synergies.

Could be wrong if If recruit receives meaningful multiplayer payoffs, repeated ETBs could justify it in more blue-white value decks.

Filtering plus a frequent extra 1/1 gives useful material and vigilance helps races, though the 2/2 body and nonland-discard condition cap the rate.

Could be wrong if Unknown draft speed, removal, and sacrifice/graveyard density determine whether the token clause is routinely valuable.