Anticipate

The smoothing tool blue keeps quietly reaching for when it wants to find a card without committing to drawing it. Where Impulse digs four deep, this trims the search to three and asks for the same one-card payout, a deliberately tighter window. The trade it forces is selection without acceleration: you see three, you keep the best, you bury the other two, and your hand size stays flat. That flatness is the whole point of where the card fits. It is built for decks that want consistency rather than raw advantage, that need to assemble a specific piece (a counterspell at the right moment, the land or the threat the curve is missing) and are willing to spend two mana at the end of an opponent's turn to find it. The bottoming clause matters more than it looks: burying the leftovers clears dead cards off the top, so a turn spent here quietly improves what you draw next. It is honest filtering, not a value engine, and that restraint is exactly why it has stayed in print as the dependable middle option between cantripping for free and digging for real.