Take the tour ×  Back in Kamigawa Block, Gifts Ungiven was a
very popular card, showing up in a good percentage of blue
decks. I don't understand why it's considered useful. What made
this card so popular?  share|improve this question add comment
4 Answers  up vote 14 down vote accepted  I'm sorry, you don't
think that a Diabolic Tutor in blue (for the same cost) that
tutors two cards instead of one (giving you card advantage), can
be cast at instant speed (on your opponents turn with untapped
mana that's a counterspell threat), and puts two cards in your
graveyard is useful?  The only drawback is that the opponent
gets to choose which two cards you tutor out of four
possibilities. If they are all four good, useable cards, (which
they naturally should be if you have crafted a good deck) this
is hardly a drawback.  Many decks ran this with Psychatog, as
those two cards in the graveyard and those two cards in your
hand, if nothing else, help power the 'tog.  I've seen other
decks run this with "return creature