My friend plays vintage. Here's how he uses the card.
Friend: "I play gifts ungiven. I fetch... vampiric tutor, demonic tutor, cruel tutor, and grim tutor."
Opponenet puts two of the tutors into the graveyard.
Friend: "Okay, here's the card I was really looking for..."
Posted By:
Gilder_Bairn
(5/19/2010 10:38:57 PM)
Haha, this'd be amazing in a recursion deck. I wonder if anyone else sees how?
Posted By:
Lateralis0ne
(6/27/2010 5:51:56 PM)
This is the highest rated card in the modern frame. The next highest rated card is Chalice of the Void, followed by Sensei's Divining Top. So much for Kamigawa being "the worst set since Homelands," as one of my friends called it, and definitely not "an insult to the awesomeness that was Mirrodin"
Posted By:
Superllama12
(4/11/2013 10:05:18 PM)
One of the best, would have been better with new art though.
Posted By:
spike_barnett
(4/2/2010 9:54:13 PM)
Why didn't they update the art? Bah.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(1/26/2010 10:37:44 AM)
This card is ridonkulous, plain and simple. It tutors any card, which is unusual for blue, and puts half of those cards into your hand.
If you're running a 2 card combo and include 4 of both pieces + 4 Gifts Ungiven in the deck, you've basically made it so that one of 8 cards will fill in either half of the combo that you're missing (ie. 2 Gifts Ungiven would allow you to complete the combo, as you could tutor 4 of one piece with one, and 4 of one piece with the other, ensuring you end up with what you need). If you have cards which provide access to your graveyard, then this tutoring is even more ridiculous (considering splashing blue in WB knights to easily get Haakon into my graveyard, then the other three will basically let me get 4 knights of my choice given I'll have access to my graveyard).
I get the feeling though if I pick some up and start running them in casual combo decks (ie. those combos which are really convoluted or very expensive), then my friends are gonna get prett... (see all)
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(5/16/2011 4:00:53 AM)
Ok, REALLY?
What's with the makes-no-sense ruling? The whole idea behind this card is to put both you and your opponent into a bind, to make at least one of you THINK every time it is played.
It doesn't say "up to" four cards. Why allow someone to choose ONLY two, thereby forcing the opposition into choosing the very same?
If you really "fail to find" 4 uniquely named cards, the onus should be on you to PROVE it by revealing the hidden zone (library in this case). *** it, that's less retarded than this ruling.
Posted By:
Fictionarious
(11/21/2012 7:42:22 PM)
I STILL don't get why this card is supposedly powerful.
4-mana for getting any card your opponent picks out of 4? and then?
Posted By:
Flying-Toaster
(1/29/2010 3:51:08 AM)
Im gonna snag me Squire, Tahngarth's Glare,Dwarven Pony and the mighty Wood Elemental.
No one can top my picks. NO ONE.
Posted By:
XTwistedsoulX
(10/23/2011 1:06:03 AM)
So why, oh why is the official ruling on this card that you can tutor up less than 4 cards? It opens the door to nasty things because the card effectively reads "search your library for 2 cards with different names and put them into your graveyard". One card being unburial rites and the other being some kind of game-winning creature (like Iona, for example).
I have seen this explained all over the web, and I still don't get it. Wizards/DCI, admit you got it wrong and change the official ruling to reflect the actual text of the card. Not "up to 4 cards" but "4 cards", no ifs, no buts...
Posted By:
Akym
(2/22/2012 7:46:06 AM)