Ecological Appreciation
Gifts Ungiven logic bolted onto a tutor, but pointed at creatures and pointed at the battlefield instead of the graveyard. You dig up as many as four creatures with distinct names, each capped at mana value X, then hand the pile to an opponent and let them decide which two you keep. That hand-off is the entire design. A normal creature tutor fetches exactly the piece you want; this one asks you to assemble a spread of four where every split is acceptable, because you are not solving for your best card, you are solving for the worst pair an opponent will leave you. Any four where the two "losers" still advance your board is a cast that plays itself. Two wrinkles reward the patient builder. It searches your graveyard as well as your library, so creatures that hit the yard early stay live; and the two survivors land directly on the battlefield, sidestepping their mana costs and any cast triggers that would gate them. The cards the opponent picks are always shuffled back into your library, regardless of what you paid for X, so nothing is truly lost, only deferred. The exile-on-resolution clause caps the ceiling: this is a one-shot, not a recurring engine, so it wants a curated toolbox of high-impact bodies rather than a graveyard loop to abuse.




