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CardName: Oracle of the Endless Wood Cost: 2g Type: Creature - Treefolk Pow/Tgh: 2/4 Rules Text: Vigilance As you're searching your library for one or more cards, you may search your library for an additional basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Cards With No Home Rare |
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Needs wording help.
I think making it modify the original search is unnecessary. Why not just make it triggered, i.e. "Whenever you search your library, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."? Sure, in niche cases it's worse, but it plays basically the same.
I was attempting to avoid the extra shuffle, though realistically most players would simplify it down to one.
Oh, and also your version goes infinite with two of these.
Eh, it's a rare; you're allowed a bit of reading complexity for a card to boil down to "when you tutor for a card, you get a basic land, too".
Unless you want to pretend we're back in Alpha? In which case that exact sentence is perfect.
I think it's worth phrasing it so it's simple and obviously allows you to combine the two searches into one, if that's possible. If not, I agree, it's probably ok to print the other one.
Is "Whenever you search your library, you may also search for a basic land card. Reveal it and put it into your hand." any better?
If it's worded as any sort of triggered ability, it can trigger itself and go infinite.
I guess what I want to say is that you may search for an additional card while searching, not search again, but I'm not sure how to word that.
Oh you're right. Didn't think of it triggering itself. It could just trigger whenever a spell makes you search, but making it a replacement ability is probably better. Hmm.
Previous wording: If you would search your library for a card, instead search for a basic land card in addition to any other cards for which you're searching. Reveal that card and put it into your hand.