An interesting card, but unless you find some way to remove every other card from your graveyard (Death Rattle or something), I don't think it's all that powerful. Depends on the deck, I guess.
ClowWizardEriol
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is most useful in an mono-black deck. If you combine it with Cabal Coffers, you'll have enough mana to get the card you want back from the graveyard.
Ace8792
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In theory this can be one of the most powerful cards out there because you can exile all of your graveyard execpt one card and return that one to your hand for one black mana.
allmighty_abacus
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
I guess it's good because you can choose non-creature cards in your graveyard, which black doesn't do otherwise. But still, most of the time I would rather just run zombify or dread return or whatever and not beat around the bush.
Horos_god_of_magic
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I think all of you are forgetting a format that would absolutely love this card: EDH
In EDH (or any Highlander variant for that matter), this card can be a beast.
Wanderer25
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Like abacus said, there aren't many black cards that can fetch non-creature cards from your graveyard; usually it's green that gets cards like that. (Recollect, Eternal Witness, etc.)
It seems like it could be effective, especially in the early game. Playing Vampiric Tutor or Thoughtseize on your first turn, then on your second turn fetching it with shrouded lore and playing it again - that's nothing to scoff at. It's not Yawgmoth's Will, but then what is?
nersan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
wow im i the only one that knows the true potential of this card with my combo instant game win every time mono black is best tho
Seems good T1, with Dark Ritual. Probably not consistent enough for a serious Storm deck, but I like the idea of Swamp, Ritual, Shrouded Lore, Ritual again - 1 mana + 2 cards = 4 mana and 3 storm.
Surprised noone has mentioned yet in the comments that this is the planeshift version of Forgotten Lore. Comments are good in most other cases at pointing out what the card was originally.
When you first see it, this card looks clunky and unwieldy... Now go over the list of cards in modern that return any card from your graveyard to your hand.
Any serious, stream-lined deck won't have to spend more than 2 mana to get back something that has already put a dent in the opponent. Cascading into it with Jund is just the icing on the cake for blightning/maelstrom pulse part two.
But on a sidenote: You shouldn't be filtering your graveyard for low powered cards, you should be using this to seriously reexamine your deck. If a card doesn't do anything to your opponent the first or second time you cast it, maybe you shouldn't be running that card.
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EDH
In EDH (or any Highlander variant for that matter), this card can be a beast.
It seems like it could be effective, especially in the early game. Playing Vampiric Tutor or Thoughtseize on your first turn, then on your second turn fetching it with shrouded lore and playing it again - that's nothing to scoff at. It's not Yawgmoth's Will, but then what is?
Also cool for that T1 Phyrexian Obliterator.
Any serious, stream-lined deck won't have to spend more than 2 mana to get back something that has already put a dent in the opponent. Cascading into it with Jund is just the icing on the cake for blightning/maelstrom pulse part two.
But on a sidenote: You shouldn't be filtering your graveyard for low powered cards, you should be using this to seriously reexamine your deck. If a card doesn't do anything to your opponent the first or second time you cast it, maybe you shouldn't be running that card.