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Noble Benefactor

Creature — Human Cleric2 generic manaBlue mana

A symmetrical tutor stapled to a body, which is a stranger design choice than it reads. The premium of tutoring has always been the asymmetry: you find your combo piece, your opponent finds nothing. This hands everyone a search when it dies, so the card's real engine is controlling the when and the whom. You sacrifice it on your own terms, you find the answer you need, and you accept that the table refills its hands as the price of doing business. That price is what holds the rate in check: a 2/2 that tutored for free with no strings would be absurd, so the search is shared and the body is fragile, and the work of making the trade lopsided falls to the pilot. Note the wording closely, though: the searched card goes to hand, it is not drawn, so the obvious "punish your opponents' draws" plan does not fire here. The friction is real, but so is the workaround. Sacrifice it in response to your own end-of-turn outlet and the opponents' fresh cards arrive with little time left to matter that turn; lean on resources that the extra cards cannot easily answer, and the symmetry curdles into something one-sided. It is a tutor built for players who would rather hand the whole table a fish than not fish at all, provided they have a plan for what to do once everyone is holding cards they did not have a moment ago.

Noble Benefactor (wth)
WTH · #44uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.44
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, each player may search their library for a card and put that card into their hand. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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