Can Baited Hook be used to kill a recruit token or sprite token and still resolve playing a unit even though tokens don't go to the trash?

Ruling: Yes, you can kill a token with Baited Hook and still resolve playing a unit. Baited Hook looks back at the unit's characteristics before it changed zones and does not care that the token isn't in the trash.

Nuances:

• Tokens do actually go to trash when killed, they just immediately cease to exist once they arrive there
• Cards that move something to a different zone as a cost or effect can "look back" at its characteristics before it changes zones