If you are going to recruit Linde, you need Marth to visit the village so I don't see how the warp staff would help you there. I think we should just ban it outright, but that's just me.
Whoops, it's my pick.
1: Core: Abel, Hardin, Navarre, Caesar, Athena
2: The_Steel_Lance: Frey, Oguma, Cord, Sedgar, Minerva
3: Janissary: Cain, Merric, Bord, Darros, Catria
4: General_Horace: Shiida, Barst, Wendall, Draug, Palla, Gordin
5: Eclipse: Castor, Wolf, Julian, Lena, Radd, Linde