Planar Portal

Twelve mana to fetch a single card to hand: that is the price tag, and it explains why this artifact reads as a relic of a slower design era. Demonic Tutor did the same job for two mana in Alpha and never asked for a tap or a follow-up payment. What this offers instead is repeatability without a card in hand, a colorless engine any deck can run that turns a long game's surplus mana into guaranteed access to the exact answer or finisher you need. The structure is the tell: a heavy front-loaded cost to deploy, then a steep recurring activation, the shape designers of this period used to keep unconditional tutoring out of fast strategies while still rewarding decks that intended to grind. It searches for any card, not a creature or a land or an instant, which is the generosity the mana is meant to balance. By the standards of efficiency it is glacial, and that is precisely the logic of how it was built: a tutor you can only afford once the game has already gone long enough that finding the right card matters more than the tempo spent finding it. It belongs to the family of expensive colorless wishbringers that ask you to win the long game first, then collect the reward.