awesome search card.falls a little short to merchant scroll in mono-blue but thats about it.i run 2 and they've helped me get that needed spell more than a couple times.use it with brainstorm,ponder,or the top and bypass the top of library downfall.
mkniffen
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
too bad you got banned, I'll miss your hot face all over my legacy decks.
TheStud
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(5 votes)
"Too bad you got banned?!" this would blow up any tournament. Combo decks would reign supreme.
Xarr
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(7 votes)
It was just banned this month and combo hasn't reigned supreme so far. Just check the tournament results up to the banning. I don't know about you but I see alot of aggro decks (Merfolk and Goblins to name a couple) at the top of the list with only a smattering of combo placing high. I'm not saying Magic is getting dumbed down...I'm saying WotC just likes to cater to those that can't think more than one turn ahead. They say people like to play their creatures and have them removed rather than have them countered. I like a cerebral game where you look across the table right into you're oppenents eyes and wonder "What's next? Should I have saved that last Force Spike or are you drawing dead?" Guess that's just me though.
MrCleric
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
( Xarr "awesome search card.falls a little short to merchant scroll in mono-blue but thats about it.i run 2 and they've helped me get that needed spell more than a couple times.use it with brainstorm,ponder,or the top and bypass the top of library downfall.")
I must be blind, but what makes merchant scroll better? Seems like a more situationally card and it's sorcery speed rather than instant strictly worst? It even has a higher CMC... Seems like I'd rather run Mystic than try to stick down a merchant scroll on my turn.
Luke_BPC
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Merchant Scroll has advantage of timing. It brings things straight to your hand, instead of throwing them on top of your library. It's not necessarily better, but depending on the situation it can give you great advantage.
Gomorrah
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(14 votes)
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
Lyoncet
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Yeah, most situations I'd prefer this over Merchant Scroll, but one card in particular works much better with Merchant Scroll: Echo Mage. In most cases, being able to pay 1UUU to tutor 3 instants to your hand would be more useful than paying UUU to put 3 instants/sorceries on top of your library. In most any other deck though, between being able to search sorceries, instant speed, and being a turn-1 play, I'd say this is the better card.
Pity you have to reveal the card though. I always thought that cards that tutor instants should let you exile the card, then play it as if it were in your hand to keep it hidden from the opponent while still letting them make sure you aren't cheating with your tutors. (Damn that sounds dirty.)
GrehFox
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I think it's funny that this card is now banned when it used to be a in world championship deck
For the most part, very cheap cards like this get gradually worse as a game progresses. This defies that logic entirely.
KokoshoForPresident
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Just think about this for a second with the new miracle ability.
crickette
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
this should be banned.. imagine tutoring for a miracle card.. and drawing it right away on your turn.. gravy......
Eicha
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Temporal Mastery. :D
MechaKraken
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I support the banning. This thing is WAY too cheap for what it does. Blue is known for some of the most devastating spells in the game, such as Time Walk , Time Warp , Mind Over Matter , Brain Geyser , Ancestral Recall , Force of Will , and Tinker. Not to mention it makes the new miracle cards in Avacyn Restored stupid powerful.
Do we REALLY want to be playing against an opponent who can search for and have those cards in his hand anytime he wants for 1 BLUE MANA?
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I must be blind, but what makes merchant scroll better?
Seems like a more situationally card and it's sorcery speed rather than instant strictly worst?
It even has a higher CMC... Seems like I'd rather run Mystic than try to stick down a merchant scroll on my turn.
Pity you have to reveal the card though. I always thought that cards that tutor instants should let you exile the card, then play it as if it were in your hand to keep it hidden from the opponent while still letting them make sure you aren't cheating with your tutors. (Damn that sounds dirty.)
Do we REALLY want to be playing against an opponent who can search for and have those cards in his hand anytime he wants for 1 BLUE MANA?
Can't decide which spell you want? Who said that you had to pick just one?