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| '''Fetching''' is an informal game term. Fetching a card means taking it from an out-of-play area (often the draw deck) and putting it somewhere more useful, typically the player's hand. {{Card|Saved From The Fire}} and {{Card|Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith}} are popular examples, and {{C|Gandalf}} and {{C|Gollum}} cultures are both known for these effects. Fetching the right card at the right time can be incredibly impactful, and its increased availability correlates to the game's [[power creep]]. | | '''Tutoring''' is an informal game term, named after "[https://scryfall.com/card/uma/93/demonic-tutor Demonic Tutor]," a card from Magic: the Gathering. Tutoring a card means searching your [[deck]] (or occasionally [[discard pile]]) for it, usually (but not always) to put that card into hand. {{Card|Saved From The Fire}} and {{Card|Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith}} are tutors, and {{C|Gandalf}} and {{C|Gollum}} cultures both are known for tutor effects. |
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| For the most part, "fetch" is used only when the action grabs an card that hasn't been played yet, most often "important" ones such as components of a [[combo]] or a [[silver bullet]]. In this way it is distinct from [[recursion]], which is favored when an effect pulls card that has already been played. Still, there can be overlap between the two terms and both are understood to refer to a similar phenomenon. [[Mill|Self-milling]] strategies intentionally discard large pieces of a deck at a time and use what are typically recursion tools such as {{Card|Barliman Butterbur, Prancing Pony Proprietor}} to fetch key cards.
| | Cards that [[download]] other cards directly into play from your deck are also often called tutors, and tutoring is sometimes referred to as fetching. |
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| Putting a card into hand by any means -- including fetching it -- is subject to the [[Rule of 4]]. However, not all effects that fetch cards put them into hand. Many effects, such as {{Card|A Wizard is Never Late}}, fetch a card and put it in play. {{Card|Long-stemmed Pipe}} fetches a card and puts it into the discard pile, typically to then be fetched into hand with another card.
| | ==See Also== |
| | | * [[recur]] |
| Strategies which fetch large quantities of cards from the draw deck are called '''filters''': they "filter out" fetched cards from the deck which allows the rest to be drawn more quickly and consistently. The most infamous of these is the "horn filter" deck: a player can start {{Card|Gamling, Defender of the Hornburg}} to fetch {{Card|Erkenbrand's Horn}} and use {{Card|Dammed Gate-stream}} to fetch {{Card|Something Slimy}} which in turn fetches {{Card|New Chapter}}. Erkenbrand's Horn fetches followers and New Chapter heals every exertion until there are none left. Up to 28 followers can be played this way (there 22 Free Peoples followers, and 2 of them are not unique), which is enough to filter every single Free Peoples card out of the deck at the start. The result is a hand full of Shadow cards for the rest of the game, making the Shadow side far deadlier and set up much faster than a non-filtered deck.
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| Fetching a card and putting it directly into play is occasionally called '''downloading''' by players familiar with Decipher's Star Trek Collectable Card Game -- it could be said that Gamling, Defender of the Hornburg downloads [[possession]]s onto himself, for example. Magic: the Gathering players may refer to fetching as '''tutoring,''' and cards that accomplish this as '''tutors.'''
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