Whedon's run was a critical success. "Gifted" was given the accolade of "Wizards book of the year, while IGN called the arc "best X-Men run in a decade" and lauded Whedon for flawless character dynamics. Whedon said that while he knew "many people have done cure scenarios before me," he was not familiar with any of those earlier stories at the time he started working on the arc. The "mutant cure" plot of "Gifted" eventually became the basis of the '.