MArcomage

Just a thought - this card should select the lowest rarity in the event of a tie between 2 cards with the same recruits cost

Seems reasonable.

The card text is already pretty long.

Plus, I think this has been the most overpowered common in the game for ages - it hardly needs a buff.

I think its fine with discarding rarer low costs. Certain tactical drawback to it.

It will still act upon the lowest cost first, regardless of rarity.

I was about to point out a bug in the card, but I see you've beaten me to it.

My 1R Uncommon Gladiator got discarded instead of several common but less cheap cards in hand. Maybe this doesn't need to be changed, but the effect should be made more clear in the text. Maybe just remove the "lowest rarity" part entirely, or otherwise make it clear which criterion takes precedence over the other.

The card text says:

'Discard lowest recruits cost lowest rarity...'

I think it's clear that cost has higher priority, because it is mentioned first. Only cards with same cost are compared by rarity. It's the same as when you sort a table by two columns - first you sort the table by the first column and only items that are have the same value are sorted by the second column.

See, the way I parse that in my head is "Discard (the cheapest of (lowest rarity suitable card))"

A similar phrase with different terms: "Please bring me the leftmost of the big cakes"
The correct thing to do would be to see where the big cakes are and take the leftmost one, rather than just looking at the left hand row of cakes and choosing the most big out of it.

...I hope that makes sense, sorry for the useless analogy; I couldn't think of a better one! ;)

Spoon's right.

Gonna try to reword this without making it much longer:

(current)
Discard lowest recruits cost lowest rarity Barbarian or Soldier from hand to gain
Stock: +3

Discard lowest recruits cost Barbarian or Soldier (low rarity if tie) from hand to gain
Stock: +3

To me, it would make sense if the terms in the sentence switched places:

(current)
Discard lowest recruits cost lowest rarity Barbarian or Soldier from hand to gain
Stock: +3

(proposed)
Discard lowest rarity lowest recruits cost Barbarian or Soldier from hand to gain
Stock: +3

To reuse the cakes example; "Bring me the biggest of the cakes on the left"

The problem with this approach is that reordering the card text without changing its effect (or vice versa) is going to cause confusion, especially where the card text is very similar to the old text and might appear unchanged at first glance.