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Sorcery
Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
So I wanted a Trinket Mage's effect, but without having to pay extra for the stupid gray ogre body. Clearly I have costed this aggressively; this is probably an auto-restrict in vintage, but after being restricted, not too dangerous; and not dangerous at all in non-Eternal formats. The real question is how strong this is in Legacy.
There's basically two ways to use this. The one I intended was that this is used in a control deck, to find EEs and Tops and maybe a Tormod's Crypt - basically exactly the way Trinket Mage is used now, but without the body.
Then there's the combo way: this finds LEDs, and that's good, but if that's all it did it would not be too good, I think. I don't think it'd make much of a difference to combo in terms of brokenness. But what it might do is make combo too resilient. I am imagining being able to find a singleton EE vs Counterbalance (or Needle against Top), or EE vs. ETW, or Needle vs. Belcher, or Crypt vs. dredge...all of these while ALSO finding a Diamond when you don't need protection (or Top, some combo decks run Top); together, that might be too good.
On the other hand, Enlightened Tutor does all of these, and also finds much more, and is very fair. It does cost a card; but it also can be played at EOT.
So what do you think? Too good? Is there some way of balancing it so that it could be used in fair strategies without being used in combo, apart from increasing the casting cost?
