Increasing Ambition

A tutor that pays you for waiting. The front half is a straightforward five-mana effect: find the one card you need and put it in hand, the kind of unconditional search black has always charged a premium for. The flashback is where the design earns its name. Cast from the graveyard, the spell doubles its yield to two cards, and the steep eight-mana flashback turns the price into the point. You are not meant to flash this back at parity; you are meant to reach a board state where eight mana is trivial and a two-card tutor closes the game. The structure rewards patience over tempo: cheap players want their tutor fast and cheap, while this one asks you to spend the early copy on insurance and the late copy on a haymaker, then exiles itself so there is no third bite. It is a tutor built for the long game, where a single card sold twice (once now, twice later) is worth more than the raw mana suggests. The genius is that both modes live on one card, so the early search never feels like a wasted draw; it is the down payment on a finisher you fund yourself.