Does Promising Future cause burnout when the opponent has fewer than 5 cards in their deck?
Ruling: Promising Future does not trigger burnout when there are fewer than 5 cards in the deck. You do as much as you can (look at the available cards), but burnout only occurs when a player would look at, draw, or mill cards while their main deck is empty.
Sequence:
- Promising Future resolves
- Player looks at as many cards as available (e.g., 4 cards if only 4 remain)
- Cards remain in the main deck zone during resolution
- No burnout occurs because the main deck is not empty
- Cards are recycled back into the deck
Nuances:
- Burnout could only trigger if the player had 0 cards in deck before Promising Future resolves
- This works the same way as Dazzle - it cannot cause burnout on its own
- During the resolution of Promising Future, all cards being looked at still belong to the main deck zone