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Envisioner
2013-11-10 20:18 UTC
#1
Amidst all the recent discussion of Gloomweaver, I took a good long look at his deck, and I noticed that some of his effects say to "search" the trash for certain kinds of cards and put them into play, while others say to "move" a card from the trash to play. Since it seems to be rare for any difference of wording in SOTM to be insignificant, I thought it was worth asking whether there is any significance to this distinction. If it was on a Rook City card I'd assume it was just a bit of strange old templating, but IR is pretty recent so I'm much less sure it doesn't actually mean something (even though I can't think of what the difference might be).
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Pydro
2013-11-10 20:30 UTC
#2
Which card says move. I could be forgetting something, but the two trash abilities for Gloomweaver are his charactee card and vast following. However, both do very different things with the trash.
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Envisioner
2013-11-10 20:38 UTC
#3
I wasn't considering Vast Following at all, since that works in a different way ("shuffle and reveal" could be a third distinct method of interacting with the trash, if these two are indeed different). One definite example of "move" is the Chosen Disciple's zombie-getting ability, though I'm pretty sure there's at least one more.
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Pydro
2013-11-10 20:41 UTC
#4
That’s right, forgot about that. Nope, no difference.
My guess would be text real estate. Not enough room to say yhe standard search phrase.
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Mezike
2013-11-10 20:41 UTC
#5
it is Chosen Disciple, she moves a zombie from the trash into play end of turn. I don't know if there is much or any difference unless we one day get card effects that prevent searching.
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phantaskippy
2013-11-10 20:50 UTC
#6
I agree, no difference, it is essentially search and put into play, like was said above, probably a space saver.
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TheJayMann
2013-11-11 13:45 UTC
#7
Hmm... would moving a card from the trash to play avoid any interaction with a card being put into play? Is this simply an oversight of the card? Or is it simply assumed that any card going from a position of not in play to in play count as putting into play?
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phantaskippy
2013-11-11 15:40 UTC
#8
A card entering play has been put into play. playing a card, putting it in play or moving it into play all put a card in play.
Or at least that is how I would see it.