Sound the Trumpets

The Hobbit #55

Sound the Trumpets - The Hobbit

Type: Instant

Mana cost: {1}{U}{U}

Card text: Counter target spell. If that spell's mana value was 2 or less, recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.)

Rarity: uncommon

Artist: Nereida

"The warning trumpets were suddenly sounded, and echoed along the rocky shores. So it was that the Dragon did not find them quite unprepared."

Released: August 14, 2026

Prices

$0.10 USD · $0.23 USD (Foil) · €0.05 EUR

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Format Legality

FormatLegality
Standard✓ Legal
Pioneer✓ Legal
Modern✓ Legal
Legacy✓ Legal
Commander✓ Legal
Vintage✓ Legal
Pauper✗ Not Legal
Oathbreaker✓ Legal

Draft & Sealed Synergies

Best cards to pair with Sound the Trumpets in The Hobbit limited

common

Lake-town Lookout
Lake-town Lookout
Creature — Human Scout

Sound the Trumpets counters small spells and can recruit, while Lake-town Lookout recruits when it dies, both contributing to the Human Soldier token strategy that benefits from a wide board.

Esgaroth Garrison
Esgaroth Garrison
Creature — Human Soldier

Esgaroth Garrison's power scales with the number of creatures you control, so the tokens generated by Sound the Trumpets' recruit trigger directly pump it into a large attacker.

Patient Instructor
Patient Instructor
Creature — Human Citizen

Patient Instructor recruits when it enters, and Sound the Trumpets also recruits when countering small spells, stacking recruit triggers to flood the board with 1/1 Human Soldier tokens.

uncommon

Eagle of the Great Shelf
Eagle of the Great Shelf
Creature — Bird Soldier

Eagle of the Great Shelf gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control when attacking, so the 1/1 tokens generated by Sound the Trumpets' recruit ability directly translate into a massive flying attacker.

mythic

The Queen of Dale
The Queen of Dale
Legendary Creature — Human Noble

The Queen of Dale recruits whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, and Sound the Trumpets counters those spells while also recruiting, creating a powerful disruption-plus-token engine.

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