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Well, it's a bit like saying "For the next hour, the time will be 3:12pm." Sure, my mind can process that, but it's technically impossible. Thinking about things like that makes good science fiction because it forces you to laterally think. It can't be printed on a non-silver card, however, without some sort of errata, and even silver bordered land would require some reminder text so that everyone was on the same page.
But, think like an author and not a Magic designer? Sure. It opens up a time rift that exists within the space of drawing a card. In this space, you may play any number of spells (not including the one you are drawing... that's just silly) and they can't be responded to, except for by other players who are currently drawing a card. When you are done drawing a card, the turn is over, since you are drawing a card until end of turn.
If I saw "Draw a card until end of turn", I'd interpret it to mean "The author of this card is not very good at templating." I'd ask them to clarify what they meant.
I suppose my best guess as to what the author probably meant would be something like SM's second bullet: "Draw a card [and play with that card revealed in your hand]. At the beginning of the next end step, if it's still in your hand, discard it."
Perhaps the best comparison would be "exile target creature until end of turn". I think that's perfectly unambiguous and could be defined in the comp rules, but I think it isn't.
On that basis, if exiling/unmorphing temporarily was a major theme, I'd seriously consider updating the comp rules. But if it's just one card, I'd reluctantly propose accepting the "turn them face up again at..." wording.
I think exiling is simpler than returning to hand, since returning to hand is potentially ambiguous if you have another copy of that in hand, etc. I think "draw a card until end of turn" is even worse than that, since even in the best case, you've messed up your library order and seen another card, and you want to ask things like "when I undraw the card, what if I drew another card first?" etc.
Quick tangential survey: If you saw the text "Draw a card until end of turn", what would you interpret it to mean?
-"Draw a card. If it's still in your hand for the cleanup step, put it back on top of the library."
-"Draw a card. If it's still in your hand for the cleanup step, discard it."
-one-third of Ideas Unbound (so that you'd have to discard a card even if you managed to get rid of the card you drew)
-"Draw a card. Has the turn ended yet? Nope, don't think so. Guess I'd better keep drawing a card like the effect tells me to. More cards!"
-Get out my paper and coloring utensils, and go all Steve Argyle in a quick one-turn outburst of art.
-or something else entirely?
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