I was thinking more along the lines of a mono-blue deck putting 2 in it's side board in standard, if you have the room, and if they're using islands nail them with their own Pithing Needle while you still have 4 of your own. Basically give yourself 6 chances for Pithing Needle.
This will rip legacy's dependence on Jitte in HALF.\ This card makes me all giggly-and I run goblins!
Acissathar
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Goes nice with Zendikar for Merfolk. Spreading Seas if they don't play Islands, play a Cosi's Trickster, swing with Thada. Even if they don't have an artifact for you to exile you still force a shuffle causing Cosi to get +1/+1.
LTJZamboni
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(9 votes)
I loved the expression on my opponent's face in draft when he attacked me with this, searched my deck, and I respond with "I didn't get any artifacts." :D
JosirisDavid
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Cosi's Trickster can pump itself with this card even if opponent does have an equipment card. Just search and mess his deck up and shuffle again! good especially when he use ponder, Jace, the Mind Sculptor's brain storm effect, or maybe even a vampire deck.
Omniance
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Isn't the text on this card misprinted? Shouldn't it read:
"Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles his or her library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card."?
Elliott_ATL
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Of importance, you get to "play the card" from the exile zone. Which means you must pay its casting cost to play it. So no easy snag of a Darksteel Colosus.
Lateralis0ne
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Omniance: The word 'card' is the key there. If it said Artifact spell, then yes, it would be cast that spell. However, because it refers to the artifact as a card, and not a spell, saying 'play' the card is appropriate.
HairlessThoctar
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Potentially devastating.
Even if you don't have the amount or colors to cast whatever you snatch, at the very least they can't either~
Edit: They clearly had older formats in mind when they crafted her up. The use of the word 'play' instead of 'cast' allows you to snatch and play their artifact lands.
Donovann
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Got two of these in booster packs. Incredibally disappointing. A rare legendary creature that isn't even unblockable, just has isandwalk. It's second ability is rarely going to be useful - I mean, sure, it's good against artifact or equipment decks, but as a multipurpose card it sucks. It's not that common that my opponent is going to have artifacts in their decks.
Tommy9898
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
hmm, Elder Dragon Highlander commander with a deck that is all about stealing things? Could be fun.
crax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Really nice to use this with cards like archive trap, especially if you happen to have like 3 on hand... If your opponent doesn't play blue just throw a spreading seas at him/her. It doesn't really matter if your opponent has any artifacts since they have to shuffle their library anyway, which allows you to play your archive traps for free.
Cheza
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I am getting sick of cmc 3, power 2, toughness 2 merfolks. WotC should print something like "creatures with cmc 3 gain ..." or reprint a blue version of Ashling's Prerogative (with one part gaining shroud and the other part gaining bounce it unless 1 is paid)... would be funny merfolk tribal card!!!
AkaruiRain
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm gonna use this in my UB deck, especially with all of this Eldrazi stuff coming; I don't want that stuff to even come near me. I think this is gonna be good for blue when Rise hits in April.
Malnourished_Student
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I have this funny feeling, that in standard, when Mirrodin mkII comes around this may suddenly become highly sought after. I think I'll hang on to my copy and keep an eye out for some more.
ThadeGelna
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Spreading Seas. All I gotta say...
Guntz1092
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
at first i though this was trash or just a sideboard card. then i realized that, even if they dont have an artifact, ur still entitled to search the person's library. =
knowing what one plays if pretty useful imo
hopskotch
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If I am attacking with X Acquisitors at a time does my opponent have to shuffle his or her library X amount of times, thereby giving Cosi X +1/+1 counters? If so, that is awesome! And I agree, getting to see every card in their library is an added bonus!
SIlverSkyz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@hopskotch Yes, but unless you're using Mirror Gallery, because they are legendary, you can't have more than one on the battlefield at a time. Otherwise, yes your idea does work, just not in standard.
n00bmag1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even if you can't play their terrible artifact of doom, you can at least leave it exiled.
Stormtide Leviathan will open up a new niche for her imo.
ultratog1028
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
My friend photoshopped the art of this card and gave her an Indiana Jones hat and whip, and replaced the artifact she is stealing with the Gold Idol from the first movie.
JacksonRex
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Lots of silly comments here. Eldrazi are NOT artifacts. It doesn't work with archive trap, as YOU are searching the library, not your opponent.
coyotemoon722
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
I only got one thing to say: EDH Merfolk
GCNDAN3702
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
It's too bad that Exotic Orchard is rotating out of standard because it seems to pair really well with this in a mono blue deck, especially with scars right around the corner.
Braden_Campbell
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Follow her up with an Archive Trap, played for free. ;)
scumbling1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Aquisitor" is a fairly benign way of saying "kleptomaniac".
Phoenix1901
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This might work in Standard with Spreading Seas against Caw Go. I need to test it, but I can take a blade (Sword of Body and Mind and/or Sword of Feast and Famine) Spreading Seas is also good against Valakut. Let's see how much wrecking this guy does :D
kolomeha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is going in my Shape Anew deck. Almost every deck has got some type of artifact in it, even if it is just an everflowing chalice.
I would also like to point out as this works as a control card as well. The card that you find exiles unless you play it so you can get rid of those pesky mindslavers and wormcoils.
scarecrowk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Grand Architect anyone?
SeiberTross
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is the most forgotten about sideboard option for the current standard.
jfre81
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Spreading Seas or Reef Shaman (also a Merfolk) can give somebody an island to walk, then you get rid of their artifacts. Sounds like a winner to me.
Ava_Adore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Sweet this looks like the perfect card to accompany arcum, steal all artifacts from their deck then use arcum to kill off all their creatures,
or grab creatures from their deck and sacrifice them to arcum for better stuff
TheGluttony
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My current EDH general!
Loved this card ever since i drafted it and everyone in my playgroup plays loads of artifacts in their EDH decks.
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
so...nobody thought to use this against Caw-Blade....why? :P
It walks over the Islands they are casting Jace off of, and takes their Swords and throws them away forever. Why wasn't that good enough?
Superllama12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This probably wasn't used against Caw-Blade because 1. Stoneforge Mystic gets their Sword turn two 2. Jace, the Mind Sculptor can just bounce her the turn after she comes down 3. She's a rare that doesn't cost more than two dollars; therefore, she is not unattainable enough to fit into a deck as expensive of Caw-Blade
tantallum99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
she's great. most decks have at least a few artifacts, esp equipment (in non-limited anyway). even if you can't cast it, you've gotten rid of it. islandwalk is a nice bonus
MindAblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nevermind Merfolk EDH, blue EDH! I'll take that sol ring thank you.
SAR101
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Love her, she's my general in my tribal EDH which is a steal everything deck.
NaJin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've argue with my friend once. about Teferi VS this girl, can artifact exiled by Thada playable while opponent's Teferi still on the battlefield ?? Could it's locked like Knowledge Pool or Joira??
MattLynn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pull out they're Blightsteel Colossus to stop the Feldon's Cane effect. Stop Mindslaver, and/or Goblin Welder from sac'ing artifact lands to grab Phyrexian Dreadnought.
MisterAction
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This lady's insane in EDH. In one game, I took a Sol Ring, a Lightning Greaves, a Caged Sun, and a Mindslaver, and then when I didn't want to invest the mana in anything else, I just started exiling everything else and not casting it so that I wouldn't have to deal with his Memnarch and other scary things.
Nothing like bringing down a $500 deck with a fifty-cent creature.
halflingwithring
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pretty stupid in EDH. I run a deck with her and most people hate it. Just fill that sucker with every steal and copy effect you can find. Enjoy your two parallel lives, three sol rings, four grave titans and one hundred and six zombie tokens(actual board state of last game).
Lazrbeams
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If your (vintage) metagame is tezz/vault or vault/key heavy, put her in your sb. Suddenly she's really awesome, 2 swings will win you the game, plucking their collisi and vaults.
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This card makes me all giggly-and I run goblins!
Jace, the Mind Sculptor's brain storm effect, or maybe even a vampire deck.
"Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles his or her library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card."?
Even if you don't have the amount or colors to cast whatever you snatch, at the very least they can't either~
Edit:
They clearly had older formats in mind when they crafted her up.
The use of the word 'play' instead of 'cast' allows you to snatch and play their artifact lands.
knowing what one plays if pretty useful imo
Yes, but unless you're using Mirror Gallery, because they are legendary, you can't have more than one on the battlefield at a time.
Otherwise, yes your idea does work, just not in standard.
Stormtide Leviathan will open up a new niche for her imo.
I would also like to point out as this works as a control card as well. The card that you find exiles unless you play it so you can get rid of those pesky mindslavers and wormcoils.
or grab creatures from their deck and sacrifice them to arcum for better stuff
Loved this card ever since i drafted it and everyone in my playgroup plays loads of artifacts in their EDH decks.
It walks over the Islands they are casting Jace off of, and takes their Swords and throws them away forever. Why wasn't that good enough?
1. Stoneforge Mystic gets their Sword turn two
2. Jace, the Mind Sculptor can just bounce her the turn after she comes down
3. She's a rare that doesn't cost more than two dollars; therefore, she is not unattainable enough to fit into a deck as expensive of Caw-Blade
Stop Mindslaver, and/or Goblin Welder from sac'ing artifact lands to grab Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Nothing like bringing down a $500 deck with a fifty-cent creature.