Custom Card Highlight: Online Tutor
This card was made by Zarepath, for the set Netropolis, a cyberpunk set with many new mechanics.
Upload is one of the new mechanics in the set, letting you exile a card face-up and later pay 2 mana to put it into your hand at sorcery speed. In different contexts, it interacts with cards in different ways. When you upload the top card of your library, it functions as card selection. When you upload a permanent on the field, it functions as a more expensive bounce. When you upload a card from your hand, it functions as a discard with possible recursion. In this case, it makes the otherwise cheap tutor spell functionally 4 mana, with the exception that you are able to pay half of the mana on a later turn.
Coming up with new tutors can be hard, since its such a simple design space. Almost everything you can do will feel like tutor + effect, instead of a different way to tutor for something. Mechanics like upload change how cards are interacted with and let players make interesting choices.













