[Shadowmoor Offical Preview] Beseech the Queen

[Raibar]

Hi, they posted this on the official site:

Beseech the Queen   {2/b}{2/b}{2/b}
Sorcery 
({2/b} can be paid with any two mana or with B. This card's converted mana cost is 6.)
Search your library for a card with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.
Illus. Jason Chan #57/301

I'm thinking it's a good new tutor, it costs as much as a grim tutor (BBB), it's playable as it get's most of the things you want to get, (black lotus at 0, ancestral at 1) and if you get three lands (granted, not a common ocurrence in grim long but it happens more than we think) you can get pretty much anything you want, including the Yagwmoth's Will.

So what do you think, stock up on these or not worth it?

[Phele]

Hi!

It is a cute card, but I think it won't beat Grim Tutor in Vintage playability. Yes, it doesn't cost you three life. But Grim Tutor gets you any card you want at any time (and for one black mana less). This flexibility weights much mure than the life loss.

[Son of Serra]

I've been trying to think of a way to break this card using it's straight colorless cost... a colorless tutor has to be breakable, right? Maybe Metalworker?

[kkoie]

Problem with MUD is you can't use Shops to cast it, so your worker would already have to be in play to use it.

I can definately see its uses in a combo deck for someone who doesn't want to go through the hassle of tracking down grim tutors.  From what I understood, most of the time the grim tutor was used to continue the storm chain, fetching lotus.  This would be less effective but have its potential, despite the fact that you could not fetch will, bargain, or tendrils w/ it until later in the game.

[Son of Serra]

This is just a rough Idea, but what about a deck based on the Fastbond/Gush engine using lots of artifacts and Mana Drains to power out a Beseech the Queen for Fastbond?

Fastbond Beseech...

x1  Ancestral Recall
x4  Brainstorm
x4  Gush
x2  Ponder

x4  Force of Will
x4  Mana Drain
x4  Duress
x2  Thoughtseize

x4  Beseech the Queen
x1  Demonic Tutor
x1  Cunning Wish

x3  Psychatog 

x1  Time Walk
x1  Fastbond
x1  Yawgmoth's Will

x1  Black Lotus
x1  Mana Crpyt
x1  Mana Vault
x1  Lotus Petal
x1  Mox Sapphire
x1  Mox Jet
x1  Mox Emerald
x1  Mox Ruby
x1  Mox Pearl

x1  Tolarian Academy
x4  Polluted Delta
x2  Flooded Strand
x2  Tropical Island
x2  Underground Sea
x2  Island
x1  Swamp

Thought on this idea, anyone?

[Thegreatgonzo]

The main problem with this card is we already have better black tutors, and we already have better colorless mana sink (mindslaver comes to mind)

It could be great, but needs 3 lands in play to be effective the way grim tutor is.
However, maybe a mono brow deck could use this to find strip mine on a regular basis. Time will tell

[GUnit]

if you're paying black mana for this thing, it's strictly worse than grim tutor, which hardly gets played, and probably diabolic tutor as well, which doesn't get played in any format. If you're paying colorless mana for this thing, there are much better ways to spend your mana, as per the example above.

[Troy_Costisick]

It could be good in a Long deck to help build storm count.  You can Dark Ritual into it, go fetch another ritual, etc etc.  If you have 3 lands in play, it could go get Yawgmoth's Will or Necropotence.  But ouyside of a Long deck, I don't see it being popular.

-Troy

[Prometheon]

In Turbo MUD it can fetch either part of Worker-->Staff. The only problem is that if you have the Staff and need the Worker, you'll need 3 lands in play, and 6 (non-shop) mana. Urborg, perhaps?

Another direction would be to run 4 Workers (obviously), some number of BtQ, and then singletons. One Staff, one Powder Keg, maybe some bullets like Tormod's Crypt, etc.

[ErkBek]

This card sucks for ritual combo. You need 4 lands in play to tutor up Tendrils with it. That happens approximately one in 8 games.

In regards to this in Metalworker combo, the land restriction seems very annoying. Paying 9 mana for a staff seems bad....