Timeline for When resolving Extract, do I need to know what card I'm looking for?
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 7:14 | comment | added | ProductionValues | @DavidZ, yours are in deed find examples of sensible usage of the word "search". After all, the library is not known to be all lands, or known to consist of only creatures with converted mana cost less than 6. To determine if there are any, we must search. I am really curious about the nuance at play here. How would "Search your hand for a card and discard it." sound as an example? There is "Search your graveyard for a creature and put it into play." but not "Search your graveyard for a card and exile it.". It would simply read "Exile a card from your graveyard." | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 7:37 | comment | added | David Z | @ProductionValues seems pretty clear to me: you are looking for a card. Anything that counts as "a card" is fair game to be found by the search. If an ability said "search your library for a land card" then you could find anything that is a land card. If it said "search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost less than 6" then you could find anything that is a green creature card with CMC less than 6. Would you argue that these are all unclear because you don't know which piece of cardboard you are allowed to get? | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 22:12 | comment | added | Guvante | @ProductionValues: Different definitions of for. "To search for" is just Magic's way of saying "look at all cards in that zone and select one". | |
| Nov 1, 2014 at 11:30 | comment | added | ProductionValues | Definitely unclear though isn't it? Any search "for" something without first determining what you're looking for is really just pilfering! | |
| Nov 1, 2014 at 11:14 | history | answered | Ivo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |