Nimby Suffle

[sweet matrix]

If I choose not to search my deck for a Nimblism to I still need to shuffle?

[glacial vault]

you can choose to not search your deck in which case you would not have to shuffle

you can also choose to search but fail to find, in which case you would shuffle

[sweet matrix]

thanks

[vagrant dock]

Great question. The release notes don't spell this out and it isn't obvious to me that it works this way based on Nimby's wording

[dusk dust]

The key part is that you "may search" which means you don't have to. And if you have to search for something specific you can always fail to find.

[vagrant dock]

Yeah, but if you fail to find, you've tried the search, in which case you'd have to shuffle, no?

The question to me is whether the "may" extends to the rest of the sentence, because the shuffling is not conditional on the searching

[sweet matrix]

Yeah this is why I wanted to ask

[kind solar]

The "you may" part follows everything after it. Once you search, all the rest has to be done too. So if you choose not to search, the rest doesn't happen, but if you choose to search, everything else happens, even if you don't find the nimblism in the deck.

[vagrant dock]

Can you justify that based on the CR instead of a subjective reading of the phrasing of the card that's ambiguous at best?