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===Search for any card=== | ===Search for any card=== | ||
''[[Alpha]]'' had the card <c>Demonic Tutor</c>, which locked [[black]] in as the [[primary]] color to tutor for any type of card. Philosophically, blue is the better color to have this ability, but so far no changes have been made.<ref name="Color Pie 2017">{{DailyRef|making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2017-2017-06-05|Mechanical Color Pie 2017|[[Mark Rosewater]]|June 5, 2017}}</ref> | ''[[Alpha]]'' had the card <c>Demonic Tutor</c>, which locked [[black]] in as the [[primary]] color to tutor for any type of card. Philosophically, blue is the better color to have this ability, but so far no changes have been made.<ref name="Color Pie 2017">{{DailyRef|making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2017-2017-06-05|Mechanical Color Pie 2017|[[Mark Rosewater]]|June 5, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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*<c>Behold the Beyond</c> | *<c>Behold the Beyond</c> | ||
*<c>Bringer of the Black Dawn</c> (allows you to Vampiric Tutor each [[upkeep]]) | *<c>Bringer of the Black Dawn</c> (allows you to Vampiric Tutor each [[upkeep]]) | ||
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*<c>Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire</c> (via [[boast]] ability) | *<c>Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire</c> (via [[boast]] ability) | ||
*<c>Wishclaw Talisman</c> (repeatable, side-switching tutor artifact) | *<c>Wishclaw Talisman</c> (repeatable, side-switching tutor artifact) | ||
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====Specific mana costs==== | ====Specific mana costs==== | ||
{{See also|Transmute}} | {{See also|Transmute}} | ||
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*<c>Beseech the Queen</c> (with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control) | *<c>Beseech the Queen</c> (with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control) | ||
*<c>Birthing Pod</c> (with converted mana cost X, where X is 1 plus a sacrificed creature's converted mana cost) | *<c>Birthing Pod</c> (with converted mana cost X, where X is 1 plus a sacrificed creature's converted mana cost) | ||
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*<c>Tolaria West</c> | *<c>Tolaria West</c> | ||
*<c>Woodland Bellower</c> | *<c>Woodland Bellower</c> | ||
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====Color==== | ====Color==== | ||
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===Search for artifacts=== | ===Search for artifacts=== | ||
[[Blue]] is the [[primary]] color to get any type of artifact. [[White]] tends to focus on certain subsets such as [[Equipment]] and [[Vehicle]]s.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/> | [[Blue]] is the [[primary]] color to get any type of artifact. [[White]] tends to focus on certain subsets such as [[Equipment]] and [[Vehicle]]s.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/> | ||
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*<c>Arcum Dagsson</c> (searches for only noncreature artifacts) | *<c>Arcum Dagsson</c> (searches for only noncreature artifacts) | ||
*<c>Artificer's Intuition</c> (With mana cost 1 or less) | *<c>Artificer's Intuition</c> (With mana cost 1 or less) | ||
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*<c>Urza's Saga</c> (With mana cost 0 or 1) | *<c>Urza's Saga</c> (With mana cost 0 or 1) | ||
*<c>Whir of Invention</c> | *<c>Whir of Invention</c> | ||
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====[[Artifact creature]]==== | ====[[Artifact creature]]==== | ||
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====[[Equipment]]==== | ====[[Equipment]]==== | ||
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*<c>Axgard Armory</c> | *<c>Axgard Armory</c> | ||
*<c>Deadeye Quartermaster</c> | *<c>Deadeye Quartermaster</c> | ||
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*<c>Stonehewer Giant</c> | *<c>Stonehewer Giant</c> | ||
*<c>Taj-Nar Swordsmith</c> | *<c>Taj-Nar Swordsmith</c> | ||
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====[[Vehicle]]==== | ====[[Vehicle]]==== | ||
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===Search for enchantments=== | ===Search for enchantments=== | ||
[[White]] is the color that searches the library for enchantments.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/> | [[White]] is the color that searches the library for enchantments.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/> | ||
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*<c>Academy Rector</c> | *<c>Academy Rector</c> | ||
*<c>Enduring Ideal</c> | *<c>Enduring Ideal</c> | ||
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*<c>Wild Research</c> | *<c>Wild Research</c> | ||
*<c>Zur the Enchanter</c> (converted mana cost {{3}} or less) | *<c>Zur the Enchanter</c> (converted mana cost {{3}} or less) | ||
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====[[Aura]]==== | ====[[Aura]]==== | ||
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*<c>Auratouched Mage</c> | *<c>Auratouched Mage</c> | ||
*<c>Axgard Armory</c> | *<c>Axgard Armory</c> | ||
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*<c>Three Dreams</c> | *<c>Three Dreams</c> | ||
*<c>Totem-Guide Hartebeest</c> | *<c>Totem-Guide Hartebeest</c> | ||
}} | |||
====[[Curse]]==== | ====[[Curse]]==== | ||
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===Search for planeswalkers=== | ===Search for planeswalkers=== | ||
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*<c>Arena Rector</c> | *<c>Arena Rector</c> | ||
*<c>Call the Gatewatch</c> | *<c>Call the Gatewatch</c> | ||
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*<c>Ignite the Beacon</c> (Search for two planeswalker cards) | *<c>Ignite the Beacon</c> (Search for two planeswalker cards) | ||
*<c>Samut, the Tested</c> (Put the planeswalker onto the battlefield) | *<c>Samut, the Tested</c> (Put the planeswalker onto the battlefield) | ||
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===Search for creatures=== | ===Search for creatures=== | ||
[[Green]] is the [[primary]] color to tutor for creatures.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/><ref>{{EzTumblr|http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/160788498703/is-there-a-conscious-effort-in-rd-to-make-green|title=Is there a conscious effort in R&D to make green the best tutor color?|May 17, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Green">{{EzTumblr|http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/160826794878/you-mentioned-that-green-is-the-best-creature|title=Isn't green also the best land tutoring color?|May 19, 2017}}</ref> Sometimes it will even put them directly onto the battlefield. All colors have access to tutoring for specific creature types that are in their color. Red, for example, can tutor for [[Dragon]]s. | [[Green]] is the [[primary]] color to tutor for creatures.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/><ref>{{EzTumblr|http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/160788498703/is-there-a-conscious-effort-in-rd-to-make-green|title=Is there a conscious effort in R&D to make green the best tutor color?|May 17, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Green">{{EzTumblr|http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/160826794878/you-mentioned-that-green-is-the-best-creature|title=Isn't green also the best land tutoring color?|May 19, 2017}}</ref> Sometimes it will even put them directly onto the battlefield. All colors have access to tutoring for specific creature types that are in their color. Red, for example, can tutor for [[Dragon]]s. | ||
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*<c title="“Ach! Hans, Run!”">“Ach! Hans, Run!”</c> | *<c title="“Ach! Hans, Run!”">“Ach! Hans, Run!”</c> | ||
*<c>Altar of Bone</c> (Requires the sacrifice of a creature as an additional cost) | *<c>Altar of Bone</c> (Requires the sacrifice of a creature as an additional cost) | ||
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*<c>Worldly Tutor</c> (Put the creature onto the top of the library) | *<c>Worldly Tutor</c> (Put the creature onto the top of the library) | ||
*<c>Yisan, the Wanderer Bard</c> | *<c>Yisan, the Wanderer Bard</c> | ||
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====Green creature==== | ====Green creature==== | ||
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====[[Dragon]]==== | ====[[Dragon]]==== | ||
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*<c>Dragonstorm</c> | *<c>Dragonstorm</c> | ||
*<c>Dragon's Approach</c> | *<c>Dragon's Approach</c> | ||
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*<c>Tiamat</c> | *<c>Tiamat</c> | ||
*<c>Zirilan of the Claw</c> | *<c>Zirilan of the Claw</c> | ||
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====[[Elf]]==== | ====[[Elf]]==== | ||
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*<c>Elvish Harbinger</c> | *<c>Elvish Harbinger</c> | ||
*<c>Nissa Revane</c> | *<c>Nissa Revane</c> | ||
*<c>Skyshroud Poacher</c> | *<c>Skyshroud Poacher</c> | ||
*<c>Wirewood Herald</c> | *<c>Wirewood Herald</c> | ||
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====[[Goblin]]==== | ====[[Goblin]]==== | ||
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*<c>Boggart Harbinger</c> | *<c>Boggart Harbinger</c> | ||
*<c>Goblin Matron</c> | *<c>Goblin Matron</c> | ||
*<c>Goblin Recruiter</c> | *<c>Goblin Recruiter</c> | ||
*<c>Moggcatcher</c> | *<c>Moggcatcher</c> | ||
}} | |||
====[[Mercenary]]==== | ====[[Mercenary]]==== | ||
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*<c>Bog Glider</c> | *<c>Bog Glider</c> | ||
*<c>Cateran Brute</c> | *<c>Cateran Brute</c> | ||
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*<c>Rathi Fiend</c> | *<c>Rathi Fiend</c> | ||
*<c>Rathi Intimidator</c> | *<c>Rathi Intimidator</c> | ||
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====[[Merfolk]]==== | ====[[Merfolk]]==== | ||
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====[[Rebel]]==== | ====[[Rebel]]==== | ||
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*<c>Amrou Scout</c> | *<c>Amrou Scout</c> | ||
*<c>Blightspeaker</c> | *<c>Blightspeaker</c> | ||
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*<c>Ramosian Sergeant</c> | *<c>Ramosian Sergeant</c> | ||
*<c>Ramosian Sky Marshal</c> | *<c>Ramosian Sky Marshal</c> | ||
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====[[Sliver]]==== | ====[[Sliver]]==== | ||
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====Miscellaneous==== | ====Miscellaneous==== | ||
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*<c>Corpse Harvester</c> ([[Zombie]]) | *<c>Corpse Harvester</c> ([[Zombie]]) | ||
*<c>Dwarven Recruiter</c> ([[Dwarf]]) | *<c>Dwarven Recruiter</c> ([[Dwarf]]) | ||
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*<c>Vedalken Æthermage</c> ([[Wizard]]) | *<c>Vedalken Æthermage</c> ([[Wizard]]) | ||
*<c>The World Tree</c> ([[God]]s) | *<c>The World Tree</c> ([[God]]s) | ||
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====Creatures with specific abilities==== | ====Creatures with specific abilities==== | ||
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[[Green]], being one of the colors most closely associated with land and mana, is the best at tutoring for land.<ref name="Green"/> It occasionally will put them directly onto the battlefield. The other four colors are allowed to occasionally tutor for their own basic land type.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/> | [[Green]], being one of the colors most closely associated with land and mana, is the best at tutoring for land.<ref name="Green"/> It occasionally will put them directly onto the battlefield. The other four colors are allowed to occasionally tutor for their own basic land type.<ref name="Color Pie 2017"/> | ||
''See also [[fetch land]]s'' | ''See also [[fetch land]]s'' | ||
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*<c>Crop Rotation</c> (Requires the sacrifice of a land as an additional cost) | *<c>Crop Rotation</c> (Requires the sacrifice of a land as an additional cost) | ||
*<c>Expedition Map</c> | *<c>Expedition Map</c> | ||
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*<c>Wargate</c> | *<c>Wargate</c> | ||
*<c>Weathered Wayfarer</c> | *<c>Weathered Wayfarer</c> | ||
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====[[Plains]]==== | ====[[Plains]]==== | ||
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*<c>Archaeomancer's Map</c> | *<c>Archaeomancer's Map</c> | ||
*<c>Boreas Charger</c> | *<c>Boreas Charger</c> | ||
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*<c>Tithe</c> | *<c>Tithe</c> | ||
*<c>Yasharn, Implacable Earth</c> | *<c>Yasharn, Implacable Earth</c> | ||
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====[[Island]]==== | ====[[Island]]==== | ||
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*<c>Farseek</c> | *<c>Farseek</c> | ||
*<c>Gem of Becoming</c> | *<c>Gem of Becoming</c> | ||
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*<c>Shoreline Ranger</c> | *<c>Shoreline Ranger</c> | ||
*<c>Spoils of Victory</c> | *<c>Spoils of Victory</c> | ||
}} | |||
====[[Swamp]]==== | ====[[Swamp]]==== | ||
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*<c>Corpse Harvester</c> | *<c>Corpse Harvester</c> | ||
*<c>Farseek</c> | *<c>Farseek</c> | ||
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*<c>Spoils of Victory</c> | *<c>Spoils of Victory</c> | ||
*<c>Twisted Abomination</c> | *<c>Twisted Abomination</c> | ||
}} | |||
====[[Mountain]]==== | ====[[Mountain]]==== | ||
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*<c>Chartooth Cougar</c> | *<c>Chartooth Cougar</c> | ||
*<c>Farseek</c> | *<c>Farseek</c> | ||
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*<c>Spoils of Victory</c> | *<c>Spoils of Victory</c> | ||
*<c>Valley Rannet</c> | *<c>Valley Rannet</c> | ||
}} | |||
====[[Forest]]==== | ====[[Forest]]==== | ||
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*<c>Binding the Old Gods</c> | *<c>Binding the Old Gods</c> | ||
*<c>Elvish Aberration</c> | *<c>Elvish Aberration</c> | ||
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*<c>Yasharn, Implacable Earth</c> | *<c>Yasharn, Implacable Earth</c> | ||
*<c>Yavimaya Dryad</c> | *<c>Yavimaya Dryad</c> | ||
}} | |||
====Land with [[basic land type]]==== | ====Land with [[basic land type]]==== | ||
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====[[Basic land]]==== | ====[[Basic land]]==== | ||
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*<c>Absorb Vis</c> | *<c>Absorb Vis</c> | ||
*<c>Armillary Sphere</c> | *<c>Armillary Sphere</c> | ||
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*<c>Yavimaya Granger</c> | *<c>Yavimaya Granger</c> | ||
*<c>You Happen on a Glade</c> | *<c>You Happen on a Glade</c> | ||
}} | |||
===Search for instants and sorceries=== | ===Search for instants and sorceries=== | ||
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===Search for named cards=== | ===Search for named cards=== | ||
{{See also|Partner with}} | {{See also|Partner with}} | ||
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*<c>Alpine Houndmaster</c> (<c>Alpine Watchdog</c> and/or <c>Igneous Cur</c>) | *<c>Alpine Houndmaster</c> (<c>Alpine Watchdog</c> and/or <c>Igneous Cur</c>) | ||
*<c>Arachnus Spinner</c> (<c>Arachnus Web</c>) | *<c>Arachnus Spinner</c> (<c>Arachnus Web</c>) | ||
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*<c>Sift through Sands</c> together with <c>Peer Through Depths</c> and <c>Reach Through Mists</c> (<c>The Unspeakable</c>) | *<c>Sift through Sands</c> together with <c>Peer Through Depths</c> and <c>Reach Through Mists</c> (<c>The Unspeakable</c>) | ||
*<c>Urborg Panther</c> together with <c>Breathstealer</c> and <c>Feral Shadow</c> (<c>Spirit of the Night</c>) | *<c>Urborg Panther</c> together with <c>Breathstealer</c> and <c>Feral Shadow</c> (<c>Spirit of the Night</c>) | ||
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====Herald cycle==== | ====Herald cycle==== | ||
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====From Planeswalker Decks==== | ====From Planeswalker Decks==== | ||
These cards are all from [[Planeswalker Decks]] and search in the library or in the graveyard for the related [[planeswalker]]. | These cards are all from [[Planeswalker Decks]] and search in the library or in the graveyard for the related [[planeswalker]]. | ||
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*<c>Ajani's Aid</c> (<c>Ajani, Valiant Protector</c>) | *<c>Ajani's Aid</c> (<c>Ajani, Valiant Protector</c>) | ||
*<c>Angrath's Fury</c> (<c>Angrath, Minotaur Pirate</c>) | *<c>Angrath's Fury</c> (<c>Angrath, Minotaur Pirate</c>) | ||
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*<c>Vraska's Stoneglare</c> (<c>Vraska, Regal Gorgon</c>) | *<c>Vraska's Stoneglare</c> (<c>Vraska, Regal Gorgon</c>) | ||
*<c>Yanling's Harbinger</c> (<c>Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind</c>) | *<c>Yanling's Harbinger</c> (<c>Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind</c>) | ||
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====Cards named like themselves==== | ====Cards named like themselves==== | ||
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*<c>Avarax</c> | *<c>Avarax</c> | ||
*<c>Daru Cavalier</c> | *<c>Daru Cavalier</c> | ||
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*<c>Squadron Hawk</c> | *<c>Squadron Hawk</c> | ||
*<c>Welkin Hawk</c> | *<c>Welkin Hawk</c> | ||
}} | |||
====Search for a copy==== | ====Search for a copy==== | ||
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These old cards have had errata removing the word "[[copy]]" since they're not copies in the usual sense. | These old cards have had errata removing the word "[[copy]]" since they're not copies in the usual sense. | ||
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*<c>Assembly Hall</c> {{-}} revealed creature card | *<c>Assembly Hall</c> {{-}} revealed creature card | ||
*<c>Bifurcate</c> {{-}} target creature card | *<c>Bifurcate</c> {{-}} target creature card | ||
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*<c>Test of Talent</c> {{-}} countered instant/sorcery spell | *<c>Test of Talent</c> {{-}} countered instant/sorcery spell | ||
*<c>Verdant Succession</c> {{-}} green creature card that died | *<c>Verdant Succession</c> {{-}} green creature card that died | ||
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====Noted cards==== | ====Noted cards==== | ||
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===Search an opponent's library=== | ===Search an opponent's library=== | ||
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*<c>Acquire</c> - artifact card | *<c>Acquire</c> - artifact card | ||
*<c>Bribery</c> - creature card | *<c>Bribery</c> - creature card | ||
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*<c>Sphinx Ambassador</c> - creature card | *<c>Sphinx Ambassador</c> - creature card | ||
*<c>Thada Adel, Acquisitor</c> - artifact card | *<c>Thada Adel, Acquisitor</c> - artifact card | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 15:16, 30 June 2021
A Tutor is a spell which searches your library for another card.
Description
Tutoring is primary in black, but other colors can be better at searching for specific card types (and subtypes).
Enchantments, Planeswalkers, Equipments, and Vehicles
Instants, Sorceries, and Artifacts
Creatures and Lands
You do not have to find the card and put it in your library. If you do choose to find cards, you must reveal those cards to all players if it searches for a specific card type.
R&D has stopped creating tutoring keywords like transmute and transfigure.[1] They don't like to do too much tutoring, as it can lead to repetition of play, where games play out too similarly.[2][3]
A special kind of tutor are the wishes, which may search for cards outside of the game.
Search from top N cards of library
To cut down on shuffling, R&D has started to do more effects where you "tutor" just from a handful of cards from the top of your library, usually four or five. Anything else that colors can do is what they can do here.[4][5][6]
Types
Search for any card
Alpha had the card Demonic Tutor, which locked black in as the primary color to tutor for any type of card. Philosophically, blue is the better color to have this ability, but so far no changes have been made.[4]
- Behold the Beyond
- Bringer of the Black Dawn (allows you to Vampiric Tutor each upkeep)
- Burning-Rune Demon (Different names, one into graveyard)
- Coveted Prize
- Cruel Tutor
- Dark Petition
- Demonic Collusion - the only tutor with buyback
- Demonic Tutor
- Diabolic Intent (requires the sacrifice of a creature as an additional cost)
- Diabolic Tutor
- Diabolic Revelation
- Entomb (puts the card in your graveyard rather than your hand)
- Fervent Mastery (get three, discard three at random)
- Final Parting (search for two cards and one of them goes in the graveyard)
- Gamble (may discard the card you tutored)
- Grim Tutor
- Imperial Seal
- Increasing Ambition
- Infernal Tutor (Hellbent only)
- Insidious Dreams (requires the discard of cards as an additional cost)
- Intuition (choose 3 cards, opponent chooses which you get - can be 3 copies of the same card)
- Johnny, Combo Player (only un-card tutor)
- Liliana Vess
- Long-Term Plans
- Maralen of the Mornsong (forces everyone to Grim Tutor every turn rather than draw)
- Mastermind's Acquisition
- Oriq Loremage (repeatable, puts in graveyard)
- Planar Portal
- Profane Tutor
- Razaketh's Rite
- Razaketh, The Foulblooded
- Rhystic Tutor
- Ring of Three Wishes
- Rune-Scarred Demon
- Tamiyo's Journal
- Unmarked Grave (non-legendary, puts in graveyard)
- Vampiric Tutor
- Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (via boast ability)
- Wishclaw Talisman (repeatable, side-switching tutor artifact)
Specific mana costs
- See also: Transmute.
- Beseech the Queen (with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control)
- Birthing Pod (with converted mana cost X, where X is 1 plus a sacrificed creature's converted mana cost)
- Brainspoil
- Clutch of the Undercity
- Disciple of Deceit (with the same converted mana cost as the card discarded when untapped)
- Dimir House Guard
- Dimir Infiltrator
- Dimir Machinations
- Dizzy Spell
- Drift of Phantasms
- Eldritch Evolution (with converted mana cost X or less, where X is 2 plus a sacrificed creature's converted mana cost)[7]
- Ethereal Usher
- Grozoth
- Mausoleum Secrets (black card with converted mana cost less than or equal number of creature cards in your graveyard)
- Muddle the Mixture
- Netherborn Phalanx
- Night Dealings
- Perplex
- Prime Speaker Vannifar (with converted mana cost X, where X is 1 plus a sacrificed creature's converted mana cost)
- Pyre of Heroes (with converted mana cost X, where X is 1 plus a sacrificed creature's converted mana cost and share a creature type)
- Rushed Rebirth (lesser)
- Shred Memory
- Tolaria West
- Woodland Bellower
Color
- Conflux (a white card, a blue card, a black card, a red card, and a green card)
Multicolored
Search for artifacts
Blue is the primary color to get any type of artifact. White tends to focus on certain subsets such as Equipment and Vehicles.[4]
- Arcum Dagsson (searches for only noncreature artifacts)
- Artificer's Intuition (With mana cost 1 or less)
- Enlightened Tutor
- Fabricate
- Hoarding Dragon
- Kuldotha Forgemaster (Requires the sacrifice of three artifacts as an additional cost)
- Nahiri, the Harbinger
- Reshape (Requires the sacrifice of an artifact as an additional cost)
- Tezzeret the Seeker
- Tinker (Requires the sacrifice of an artifact as an additional cost)
- Transmute Artifact (Requires the sacrifice of an artifact but not as an additional cost)
- Treasure Mage (With mana cost 6 or more)
- Tribute Mage (With mana cost 2)
- Trinket Mage (With mana cost 1 or less)
- Trophy Mage (With mana cost 3)
- Urza's Saga (With mana cost 0 or 1)
- Whir of Invention
Artifact creature
Equipment
Vehicle
Search for enchantments
White is the color that searches the library for enchantments.[4]
- Academy Rector
- Enduring Ideal
- Enlightened Tutor
- Idyllic Tutor
- Lost Auramancers
- Plea for Guidance
- Sterling Grove
- Wild Research
- Zur the Enchanter (converted mana cost
or less)
Aura
Curse
Rune
Saga
Search for planeswalkers
- Arena Rector
- Call the Gatewatch
- Djeru, With Eyes Open
- Ignite the Beacon (Search for two planeswalker cards)
- Samut, the Tested (Put the planeswalker onto the battlefield)
Search for creatures
Green is the primary color to tutor for creatures.[4][8][9] Sometimes it will even put them directly onto the battlefield. All colors have access to tutoring for specific creature types that are in their color. Red, for example, can tutor for Dragons.
- “Ach! Hans, Run!”
- Altar of Bone (Requires the sacrifice of a creature as an additional cost)
- Birthing Pod
- Brutalizer Exarch
- Buried Alive (Puts the creatures into the graveyard)
- Chord of Calling
- Citanul Flute
- Congregation at Dawn
- Corpse Connoisseur (Put the creature into the graveyard)
- Ecological Appreciation
- Eladamri's Call
- Eye of Ugin
- Fauna Shaman (Requires the discard of a creature card as an additional cost)
- Fleshwrither
- Fierce Empath
- Garruk, the Veil-Cursed
- Hibernation's End
- Imperial Recruiter
- Jarad's Orders
- Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
- Nahiri, the Harbinger
- Pattern of Rebirth
- Primal Command
- Protean Hulk
- Ranger of Eos
- Recruiter of the Guard
- Rootless Yew
- Samut, the Tested (Put the creature onto the battlefield)
- Signal the Clans
- Survival of the Fittest (Requires the discard of a creature card as an additional cost)
- Sylvan Tutor
- Tooth and Nail
- Traverse the Ulvenwald (Requires Delirium)
- Weird Harvest
- Wild Pair
- Woodland Bellower
- Worldly Tutor (Put the creature onto the top of the library)
- Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
Green creature
- Green Sun's Zenith
- Magus of the Order (Requires the sacrifice of a green creature as an additional cost)
- Natural Order (Requires the sacrifice of a green creature as an additional cost)
- Summoner's Pact
Dinosaur
- Forerunner of the Empire (Dinosaur) (puts the searched card on top of its owner's library)
- Priest of the Wakening Sun (Dinosaur)
Dragon
Elf
Goblin
Mercenary
Merfolk
- Seahunter
- Merrow Harbinger
- Forerunner of the Heralds (puts the searched card on top of its owner's library)
Rebel
Sliver
Miscellaneous
- Corpse Harvester (Zombie)
- Dwarven Recruiter (Dwarf)
- Flamekin Harbinger (Elemental)
- Faerie Harbinger (Faerie)
- Forerunner of the Coalition (Pirate) (puts the searched card on top of its owner's library)
- Forerunner of the Legion (Vampire) (puts the searched card on top of its owner's library)
- Giant Harbinger (Giant)
- Kithkin Harbinger (Kithkin)
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw (Dwarf)
- Myr Turbine (Myr)
- Higure, the Still Wind (Ninja)
- Lifespinner (Legendary Spirit)
- Ratcatcher (Rat)
- Search for Glory (Snow)
- Shadowborn Apostle (Demon)
- Treefolk Harbinger (Treefolk)
- Vedalken Æthermage (Wizard)
- The World Tree (Gods)
Creatures with specific abilities
Searching for lands
Green, being one of the colors most closely associated with land and mana, is the best at tutoring for land.[9] It occasionally will put them directly onto the battlefield. The other four colors are allowed to occasionally tutor for their own basic land type.[4] See also fetch lands
- Crop Rotation (Requires the sacrifice of a land as an additional cost)
- Expedition Map
- Knight of the Reliquary (Requires the sacrifice of a Forest or Plains as an additional cost)
- Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
- Primeval Titan
- Realm Seekers
- Reap And Sow
- Reshape the Earth
- Scapeshift (Requires the sacrifice of lands but not as an additional cost)
- Sylvan Scrying
- Tempt with Discovery
- Tolaria West
- Traverse the Ulvenwald (Requires Delirium)
- Ulvenwald Hydra
- Wargate
- Weathered Wayfarer
Plains
- Archaeomancer's Map
- Boreas Charger
- Endless Horizons
- Eternal Dragon
- Farseek
- Gift of Estates
- Karametra, God of Harvests
- Keeper of the Accord
- Knight of the White Orchid
- Kor Cartographer
- Noble Templar
- Oreskos Explorer
- Pale Recluse
- Pilgrim of the Ages
- Safewright Quest
- Sanctum Plowbeast
- Shard Convergence
- Spoils of Victory
- Tithe
- Yasharn, Implacable Earth
Island
Swamp
Mountain
Forest
- Binding the Old Gods
- Elvish Aberration
- Everbark Shaman
- Field Trip
- Gaea's Bounty
- Hunting Cheetah
- Hunting Wilds
- Karametra, God of Harvests
- Land Grant
- Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
- Nissa's Encouragement (search for a card named Forest and not for a Forest card)
- Nature's Lore
- Nissa's Pilgrimage
- Nissa, Vastwood Seer
- Pale Recluse
- Quandrix Cultivator
- Ranger's Path
- Safewright Quest
- Seedguide Ash
- Silverglade Elemental
- Skyshroud Claim
- Spoils of Victory
- Sylvan Primordial
- Three Visits
- Treefolk Harbinger
- Valley Rannet
- Wirewood Guardian
- Wood Elves
- Yasharn, Implacable Earth
- Yavimaya Dryad
Land with basic land type
Snow land
Gate
Basic land
- Absorb Vis
- Armillary Sphere
- Borderland Explorer
- Borderland Ranger
- Boundless Realms
- Braidwood Sextant
- Burnished Hart
- Campus Guide
- Caravan Vigil
- Centaur Rootcaster
- Civic Wayfinder
- Cleansing Wildfire
- Collective Voyage
- Cultivate
- Dawntreader Elk
- Deep Reconnaissance
- Diligent Farmhand
- Double Play
- Dreamscape Artist
- Edge of Autumn
- Elfhame Sanctuary
- Emergent Sequence
- Environmental Sciences
- Evolution Charm
- Exploding Borders
- Explosive Vegetation
- Far Wanderings
- Farhaven Elf
- Fertilid
- Fiery Fall
- Fork in the Road
- Frenzied Tilling
- From the Ashes
- Frontier Guide
- Gaea's Balance
- Gatecreeper Vine
- Ghost Quarter
- Gleam of Resistance
- Greenseeker
- Growth Spasm
- Harrow
- Horizon Seeker (via boast ability)
- Horizon Spellbomb
- Journey for the Elixir
- Journey of Discovery
- Journeyer's Kite
- Jungle Wayfinder
- Khalni Heart Expedition
- Kodama's Reach
- Krosan Tusker
- Land Aid '04
- Land Tax
- Lay of the Land
- Mycosynth Wellspring
- Natural Balance
- New Frontiers
- Oath of Lieges
- Ondu Giant
- One with Nature
- Path to Exile
- Path to the World Tree
- Pilgrim's Eye
- Pir's Whim
- Primal Growth
- Quirion Trailblazer
- Rampant Growth
- Reclaim the Wastes
- Renewal
- Rites of Spring
- Road
- Roiling Regrowth
- Rootweaver Druid
- Ruin in Their Wake
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Scholarship Sponsor
- Scouting Trek
- Search for Tomorrow
- Seek the Horizon
- Silkwing Scout
- Silverglade Pathfinder
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Sprouting Vines
- Sword of Home and Hearth
- Sword of the Animist
- Sylvan Bounty
- Sylvan Bounty
- Sylvan Ranger
- Thawing Glaciers
- Traumatic Visions
- Traveler's Amulet
- Traverse the Outlands
- Traverse the Ulvenwald
- Untamed Wilds
- Vastwood Surge
- Verdant Confluence
- Verdant Crescendo
- Verdant Mastery
- Veteran Explorer
- Viridian Emissary
- Wanderer's Twig
- Warped Landscape
- Wave of Vitriol
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Wild-Field Scarecrow
- Yavimaya Elder
- Yavimaya Granger
- You Happen on a Glade
Search for instants and sorceries
When tutoring, the two instants and sorceries are often put together and blue seeks them out.[4]
Instant
Instant or card with flash
Sorcery
Trap
Arcane
Search for permanent types
- Incoming!
- Skyship Weatherlight (artifact and/or creature)
- Tezzeret, Artifice Master
- Wargate
Search for legendary cards
Search for a legendary creature
- Lifespinner (Spirit)
- Time of Need
Search for named cards
- See also: Partner with.
- Alpine Houndmaster (Alpine Watchdog and/or Igneous Cur)
- Arachnus Spinner (Arachnus Web)
- Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar (The Underworld Cookbook)
- Bogbrew Witch (Festering Newt or Bubbling Cauldron)
- Dark Supplicant (Scion of Darkness)
- Gate to the Afterlife (God-Pharaoh's Gift)
- Forging the Tyrite Sword (Halvar, God of Battle)
- Kyscu Drake together with Spitting Drake (Viashivan Dragon)
- Nissa Revane (Nissa's Chosen)
- Renowned Weaponsmith (Heart-Piercer Bow or Vial of Dragonfire)
- Sift through Sands together with Peer Through Depths and Reach Through Mists (The Unspeakable)
- Urborg Panther together with Breathstealer and Feral Shadow (Spirit of the Night)
Herald cycle
- Angel's Herald (Empyrial Archangel)
- Behemoth's Herald (Godsire)
- Demon's Herald (Prince of Thralls)
- Dragon's Herald (Hellkite Overlord)
- Sphinx's Herald (Sphinx Sovereign)
From Planeswalker Decks
These cards are all from Planeswalker Decks and search in the library or in the graveyard for the related planeswalker.
- Ajani's Aid (Ajani, Valiant Protector)
- Angrath's Fury (Angrath, Minotaur Pirate)
- Ashiok's Forerunner (Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears)
- Basri's Aegis (Basri, Devoted Paladin)
- Chandra's Firemaw (Chandra, Flame's Catalyst)
- Chandra's Flame Wave (Chandra, Flame's Fury)
- Chandra's Outburst (Chandra, Bold Pyromancer)
- Domri's Nodorog (Domri, City Smasher)
- Dovin's Dismissal (Dovin, Architect of Law)
- Elspeth's Devotee (Elspeth, Undaunted Hero)
- Elspeth, Undaunted Hero (Sunlit Hoplite)
- Ethereal Elk (Vivien, Nature's Avenger)
- Garruk's Warsteed (Garruk, Savage Herald)
- Gideon's Battle Cry (Gideon, the Oathsworn)
- Gideon's Resolve (Gideon, Martial Paragon)
- Goldmane Griffin (Ajani, Inspiring Leader)
- Grasping Current (Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage)
- Jace's Ruse (Jace, Arcane Strategist)
- Journey for the Elixir (Jiang Yanggu)
- Liberating Combustion (Chandra, Pyrogenius)
- Liliana's Influence (Liliana, Death Wielder)
- Liliana's Scorn (Liliana, Death Mage)
- Niambi, Faithful Healer (Teferi, Timebender)
- Nissa's Encouragement (Nissa, Genesis Mage)
- Oko's Hospitality (Oko, the Trickster)
- Ral's Dispersal (Ral, Caller of Storms)
- Rhythmic Water Vortex (Mu Yanling)
- Rowan's Stalwarts (Rowan, Fearless Sparkmage)
- Sorin's Guide (Sorin, Vampire Lord)
- Sun-Blessed Mount (Huatli, Dinosaur Knight)
- Teferi's Wavecaster (Teferi, Timeless Voyager)
- Tezzeret's Betrayal (Tezzeret, Master of Metal)
- Verdant Crescendo (Nissa, Nature's Artisan)
- Visage of Bolas (Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver)
- Vraska's Scorn (Vraska, Scheming Gorgon)
- Vraska's Stoneglare (Vraska, Regal Gorgon)
- Yanling's Harbinger (Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind)
Cards named like themselves
Search for a copy
These cards let you search for a card with the same name as another one.
These old cards have had errata removing the word "copy" since they're not copies in the usual sense.
- Assembly Hall — revealed creature card
- Bifurcate — target creature card
- Clarion Ultimatum — target permanent cards
- Doubling Chant — controlled creature card
- Frostpyre Arcanist — Instant/Sorcery in your graveyard
- Infernal Tutor — revealed card (without Hellbent)
- Mask of the Mimic — target creature card
- Mishra, Artificer Prodigy — played artifact card
- Pack Hunt — target creature cards
- Remembrance — creature card that died
- Test of Talent — countered instant/sorcery spell
- Verdant Succession — green creature card that died
Noted cards
Cards that were named and noted down during a Conspiracy Draft.
Search an opponent's library
- Acquire - artifact card
- Bribery - creature card
- Dichotomancy - copy of nonland permanent card
- Eternal Dominion - permanent card
- Grinning Totem - any card
- Knowledge Exploitation - instant or sorcery card
- Mimeofacture - copy of permanent card
- Opposition Agent - any card(s)
- Praetor's Grasp - any card
- Sphinx Ambassador - creature card
- Thada Adel, Acquisitor - artifact card
References
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (June 26, 2016). "Are there any chances for transfigure making a comeback?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (January 27, 2017). "Could we please get more cards that search things, even very specific things?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (February 02, 2018). "With the downshift of full tutoring (particularly for lands) is the primary reason because it takes so much time to shuffle?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Mark Rosewater (June 5, 2017). "Mechanical Color Pie 2017". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (August 20, 2017). "Is there a nickname anyone in R&D uses for the cards with mechanics like on Commune with the Gods or Vessel of Nascency?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 03, 2017). "You say cards that "look at the top N cards of the library rather than tutoring" are a trend.". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Gavin Verhey (June 30, 2016). "Pandora's Toolbox". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 17, 2017). "Is there a conscious effort in R&D to make green the best tutor color?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (May 19, 2017). "Isn't green also the best land tutoring color?". Blogatog. Tumblr.