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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
I agree, no difference, it is essentially search and put into play, like was said above, probably a space saver.
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?
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.