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1  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / [Single Card Discussion] Infernal Tutor (Dissension) on: March 31, 2006, 11:36:20 am
Infernal Tutor 1B
Sorcery
Reveal a card in your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as the revealed card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library.
Hellbent - If you have no cards in your hand, search your library for a card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library.

Well, I've primarially been a lurker here, for years, but now I'm actually playing vintage agaian, and decided to make an account finally, and I see this card has been confirmed on MTGSalvation from a magazine scan.  As a complete combo freak, this card screams to me to be played, but I can't decide how it would be best used.  In grimlong and the like it's more of a win-more card, as its primary function isn't that useful, and if you have no hand, eg you just used a LED, you should probably win anyway.  In Dragon it doesn't seem to be of much use, as there are few, if any, cards you want to see duplicates of, and you should be winning the game if you don't have a hand.  In a more control oriented deck, such as gifts, it also seems unnecesary, as the only viable targets would be things such as a drain or FoW, which are not things you should be tutoring for.  Although I'm not terribly familiar with workshops, it seems like it might be able to work in a workshop based deck, but none of the current decks seem like they would benefit from additional tutors tremendously.  So, my question is; can this card see play?  It's an extremely powerful effect for a very small mana cost, and seems like it should be used somehow, or will it simply be a card that never saw play?

(I hope this is enough content to justify starting a new thread, not entirely certain how much is required for a single card discussion.  If not feel free to delete this thread or LMK and I'll post more. Thanks)
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