Dakkon Blackblade has my vote even though it is a casual card. 

I found that after experimenting with various colours that Spirit Link is an absolute bomb in this game.  There has been many a time that I have used it to stall or recover from an early route.

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Hello,

My name is Bruce.  I play almost all of my magic in Calgary, Canada.  I started about 1994 when 4th edition and Ice Age were just released when a couple of friends of mine introduced me to MTG.  We used to put all of our cards into one big deck and just play to see how much damage we could do to each other before we got tired or had to go to school.

I play mostly Type 2 and limited and I have recently started rebuilding my Type 1 card pool after foolishly selling all of my good cards years ago before the big price jump.  I have been checking in on TMD for the past couple of years but have just now decided that I want to pick up on type 1 again so I better get involved in the community.

I have started down the road to judging and I really like the indepth discussion going on here.  I hope that I can make some positive input into the forums as well.

I would think that the better target is going to be yourself to try and cycle through your deck quicker.  However the casting cost of this spell makes it's uses very limited.  I especially wouldn't want to cast it against my opponent and help them cycle through their deck.  In a format full of graveyard tricks helping them see two more cards and putting four cards  into their graveyard would be more annoying then disruptive.  After all the player could just forulate their hand for later retrieval of any card that they needed and discarded.  As a matter of opinion I would gladly be the target of Wistful Thinking because it would allow me to see more cards.

I think on a budget it might replace Bazaars but not really.  This card is too expensive and would be a good target for counters if the opponent even thought it would make a difference.  With it's casting cost you would be down a lot of mana to do anything with the cards that you drew from it.  With the way that most decks are already stream lined I don't think there is much room to swap this card in.

Too slow for Vintage.   For Legacy I could see some experimentation for this Magus as a budget replacement for Bazaar.  Over all this card isn't that impressive.

I see it being a possibility as a Meta call but a main deck card.  I'm not 100% convinced that it will do anything passed a first turn drop.  Most decks will have better things to cast after the first turn and there aren't enough decks that really warrent this type of hate.  Not to mention even if you do get this on the first turn it really only slows your opponent down and it gives you nothing but a stall tactic.  You can't attack with it.  It gives no special benefit against any card that makes it to the board as well.  I don't think that there is enough decks that win purely by graveyard manipulation that would justify main board usage.

I do like it in Extended/Standard however.