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Hardened Tactician TDM 0191 · uncommon

Hardened Tactician · {1}{W}{B} · Creature — Human Warrior · {1}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card. · Power / toughness: 2/4 · "Life is full of tough calls. We honor the dead today to make better decisions tomorrow."
—Uruna, Mardu lieutenant

Price: from $0.281 printing
Win rate: 52.6% GIH 12,376 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · 17Lands
Draft: ◆ Key pickOne mana and a token become a card. Use an endure Spirit or a mobilize Warrior after combat; an ordinary nontoken creature cannot pay this particular sacrifice cost.
Job: Enablers

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 6,505 wins in 12,376 card-in-hand instances.

11,761 distinct games · 4,707 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 8–May 14, 2025.

17Lands file dated May 19, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Play

One mana and a token become a card. Use an endure Spirit or a mobilize Warrior after combat; an ordinary nontoken creature cannot pay this particular sacrifice cost.

How this changes your picks

Rules-derived

Take it when: Make expendable tokens through endure or mobilize, then convert them into cards, larger creatures and exile removal. The core can branch toward Abzan or Mardu.
What to take next: Choose the Spirit from Kin-Guard or Nurturer when Tactician needs fuel. Pay one mana to sacrifice that token and draw while keeping the original creature.
Wrong pick: Tactician sacrifices tokens specifically; a spare nontoken creature is not a legal payment. Keep the mana needed for the activation.
Mana & splash: Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.

Support cards

Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.

Fortress Kin-GuardChoose a larger early blocker or two bodies. If the creature is removed before endure resolves, the Spirit option still works.

Kin-Tree NurturerLifelink can buy time, while endure offers a counter-bearing creature or a spare Spirit. Choose the body count when a sacrifice outlet needs material.

Unburied EarthcarverConvert expendable creatures into permanent growth for two mana each. Do not spend the last useful blocker unless the extra size changes the race.

One-pick Draft: One mana and a token become a card. Use an endure Spirit or a mobilize Warrior after combat; an ordinary nontoken creature cannot pay this particular sacrifice cost.
Sealed vs Draft: One mana and a token become a card. Use an endure Spirit or a mobilize Warrior after combat; an ordinary nontoken creature cannot pay this particular sacrifice cost.

Draft data

52.6%when drawn (GIH)

−2.5 pp vs 55.0% average · 12,376 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · average from 552,428 games

#203 of 252 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.5 on average (61,839 packs).

62 of 71 multicolor cards · 22 of 25 multicolor uncommon cards.

Taken at pick6.28,548 picks

Makes the deck65.4%8,548 picks with known usage

When played53.9%29,899 matchesBenched 54.6%
13,993 matches

When drawn52.6%12,376 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 8–May 14, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 52.6% · 5,424 instances
● Drawn later 52.5% · 6,952 instances

In hand 52.6% · 12,376 instances
Unseen in deck 55.1% · 19,146 instances
−2.6 percentage points when drawn

Compared with multicolor cards

Win rate when drawn52.6%12,376 instances62 of 71

Opening hand52.6%5,424 instances48 of 70

Drawn later52.5%6,952 instances67 of 71

In the deck54.1%31,495 instances43 of 71

Without seeing it55.1%19,146 instances6 of 71

Improvement when drawn−2.6 pp12,376 instances / 19,146 instances69 of 71

When benched54.6%13,993 matches28 of 71

Makes the deck65.4%8,548 picks with known usage56 of 71

Pick (last seen)4.561,839 packs57 of 71

Taken at6.28,548 picks56 of 71

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Sacrifice WB57.9%603 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (52.6% · 12,376 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Fortress Kin-Guard+4.6 pp12,975 games with both in the deck · 2,757 both drawn Coordinated Maneuver+4.5 pp10,588 games with both in the deck · 1,976 both drawn

How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 20% of 252 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 8–May 14, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Regular printing

TDM 0191

$0.28 · foil $0.35

Prices

TDM 0191 · Regular printingListings ↗

Finish	Found in	Price
Nonfoil	Play Booster · MTGO Redemption	$0.28
Foil	Play Booster	$0.35

How to get it

A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.

Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in: Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration: Milivoj Ćeran, TDM 191 · Scryfall ↗
More like this: Sacrifice cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources: Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
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