shadow of doubt? doubtful?

[Portalis]

was wondering if shadow of doubt will be playable with all the tutors and fetches out there? i know that it will slow my opponent down alittle but was wondering if it might go well with anything?

i know this card can't be a dead hand card cause it can be fetched to fow, misdirection, unmask.

[Killane]

I've wondered this a few times myself. It seems to have the following advantages:

1. Counters DT,VT, GIfts, MT, ImpSeal, GrimT, Tinker. Good hard counter for 2 CMC vs many of the format's most broken spells.
2. Given the high number of fetchlands, it serves as 2 CMC land destruction at instant speed.
3. It freakin' Cantrips!, which is always a way to make a card way better at 2 CMC.

And yes, it pitches to FoW, which can be relevant.

The problem is, does it have a home? BUG Fish seems like the only deck that might really want this, as a way to counteract opposing broken plays without loosing a card and as extra mana denial. Does it do that better than Stifle? I'm not sure that it does - what if they already have Will and Tendrils, or Key and Vault (and you need to buy a turn to kill the vault)? It's twice as expensive, which i can only assume is why the far mroe powerful Trickbind doesn't see play, so this card has the same issue.

i think at the end fo the day the card is Vintage playable, but doesn;t really have a home in Vintage right now.

Maybe someone, maybe even someone like you, could change that.....

[vassago]

This card used to be in sullivan solution builds back when the dekc was good.  I love this card and always consider it.  I think it's actually a decent card against tez decks personally.  The thing is, it is virtually dead against shops and fish.  In the current meta game, it might be a pretty powerful thing to get caught by, especially if no one expects it. The real questions is whether or not to run more than one or two.  I think there is a home for this card, but no one has found it. 

What if you temaed it up with Aven Mindscensor?  That match up would be totally annoying.   

[AmbivalentDuck]

Extirpate is uncounterable, relevant vs Ichy and Iona Oath, undoes the same topdeck tutors, and still "counters" Gifts Ungiven.  For one mana.

I was playing SS when Extirpate was printed and it simply replaced Shadow Of Doubt.

[Killane]

Extirpate is uncounterable, relevant vs Ichy and Iona Oath, undoes the same topdeck tutors, and still "counters" Gifts Ungiven.  For one mana.

I was playing SS when Extirpate was printed and it simply replaced Shadow Of Doubt.

The only thing I don't get about what you're saying is how it "counters" gift's ungiven? Sure it kills gift piles relying on rcusion to inevitably get one or two cards into hand/play, but what about the piles that are just - here's four things, and two of which let me kill you?