It's the perfect example of a card that you have to explicitly build around to break. If you put a two card combo into your deck, and redundant ways to recur that combo when you search for it with gifts, and gifts into your commander deck, that's a minimum of 5 cards you very specifically decided to include. It is only an unfun game ending tutor card when you put unfun game ending cards to tutor for in your deck.
You are able to run almost every broken tutor card from magic's history already, demonic, vampiric, enlightened, mystical, buried alive, entomb, survival, etc. These cards are just as good, if not better at assembling a way to quickly and consistently end a game if a player wants to build their deck that way. Gifts is just another one on the pile.
For some reason the rules committee can't see past "it'll only be used to tutor up an infinite combo". Guess what guys? You have a ton of cards that are currently legal and that's all they are used for too! You even just unbanned one in protean hulk!
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It's the perfect example of a card that you have to explicitly build around to break. If you put a two card combo into your deck, and redundant ways to recur that combo when you search for it with gifts, and gifts into your commander deck, that's a minimum of 5 cards you very specifically decided to include. It is only an unfun game ending tutor card when you put unfun game ending cards to tutor for in your deck.
You are able to run almost every broken tutor card from magic's history already, demonic, vampiric, enlightened, mystical, buried alive, entomb, survival, etc. These cards are just as good, if not better at assembling a way to quickly and consistently end a game if a player wants to build their deck that way. Gifts is just another one on the pile.
For some reason the rules committee can't see past "it'll only be used to tutor up an infinite combo". Guess what guys? You have a ton of cards that are currently legal and that's all they are used for too! You even just unbanned one in protean hulk!