If you're not familiar with the Mirage block,
look up the card Impulse on Gatherer, and then
consider how similar this card is. It's tweaked
just enough to make it statistically harder to
chain it into another copy, but looking at three
cards should still find something useful most of
the time. This style of card has such a high
pedigree that its very existence should tempt
you into looking for powerful combinations among
Standard-legal cards.
Today's card of the day is Anticipate which is
a two mana Blue instant that has you look at the
top three cards of your library, put one into
your hand and the rest on the bottom of your
library. This is the latest addition to the
Ponder style of card design and is noticeably
weaker with the increased mana cost and reduced
options for library manipulation. It is
still strong as a one for one and two mana
upgrade and somewhat deck filtering, so it will
see play in current formats even if it is a bit
less likely to appeal to more expansive
settings.
In Limited this is a useful card to help improve
most situations for the low cost of two mana
which makes it an excellent topdeck and playable
at any time. In Booster it can be drafted
early after a Blue first pick and in Sealed
there is no reason not to include it whenever it
is in color for the build.
