I actually already thought this was banned for some reason. A favorite card, especially in U/B or U/W. Get some fat you can afford, some reanimation, and some removal. They lose no matter what they do, which is how this card works when it works best
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(7/14/2013 12:04:21 AM)
Traded a Grand Arbiter Augustin IV for this, all nice and ready to put it with The Mimeoplasm. Then someone told me it was illegal in Commander.
FFFFFUUUUUUUU- aah, never mind, into the trades folder you go, awesomely powerful card. I do not have another blue deck you can go into.
Posted By:
Splizer
(7/14/2013 5:36:46 AM)
Glad they added "up to" to patch up the odd ruling.
Posted By:
Continue
(7/27/2013 9:51:39 PM)
Eldrazi Con***ion
Arcanum Wings
Mine Excavation
Auramancer
Have fun watching them squirm c:
Posted By:
PopcornBunni
(8/30/2013 11:11:22 PM)
Banned in EDH, but not too powerful for any other format. Sounds about right.
Posted By:
LaserfaceJones
(12/8/2013 2:45:19 AM)
You lose a card as compared to Fact or Fiction and don't have the potential for multiples, but that its any four you want and your opponent has to choose 2 and 2 rather than two piles puts this way over the top.
As a side note, since no one else notices due to the sheer power of this card, I really like the art. Seems almost post-impressionist.
Posted By:
jonrds
(1/14/2014 4:26:54 PM)
You could always use gifts as a single/double entomb by failing to find more than 2 cards with different names.
However,the current ruling lets you search for 0 cards whereas the old wording required finding at least 1 As far as I know.
And yes, instant speed tutoring does seem rather useful, even if it's only to your graveyard unless you let your opponent make a choice.
Posted By:
casual_melvin
(2/1/2014 8:15:29 AM)
Playing this at the end of an opponents 3rd turn (Birds of Paradise or Noble Hierarch ramp), and finding only 2 cards - Unburial Rites, and your bomb creature...( Iona, Shield of Emeria..? Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite..? ) Makes for a very fast game. Both cards have to go to the graveyard, and since you can cast this, you have enough mana to Flashback Unburial Rites.
This could have been worded a little less broken, by stating "Target opponent chooses up to two of those cards..."
Posted By:
Rayenous
(3/6/2014 7:09:38 AM)
This card is just straight up good.
I've seen it do everything from put tricky little combo pieces in the grave (it works especially well in u/b zombies to just dump stuff that reanimates itself, for example), to dropping earth shattering bombs, to digging up four cards that would all be equally bad in the opponents hand, to simply dropping an eldrazi in the grave for the free shuffle against mill. While it was legal I never once saw a "bad" play with Gifts.
Posted By:
zeniongames
(4/19/2014 12:31:33 PM)
What we need is a version that exiles the other two cards instead of graveyarding them. That might be a little more interesting rather than "two card combo, two cards that recover said combo"
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(6/6/2014 3:36:59 AM)