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Diabolic Tutor
Price$1.18 – $30.13
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Diabolic Tutor

{2}{B}{B}

Sorcery

LegalRank #459

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Why is this card good?

Diabolic Tutor is the textbook "fair" tutor: unconditional, but slow and overcosted at four mana. It finds anything — a combo piece, a board wipe, a missing land, your win condition — with zero restrictions, which is genuinely valuable in a singleton format where consistency is everything. The problem is competition. Demonic Tutor (two mana), Vampiric Tutor (one mana, top of library), and Diabolic Intent (sac a creature) all do the job cheaper. Diabolic Tutor only really earns a slot in budget builds or decks already running so many tutors that you want another effect at any cost. Who wants it: combo decks (Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond, etc.), and any black deck on a budget that needs reliable access to a key card. When to skip it: if you can afford the premium tutors, or in a deck with no single high-impact target — paying four mana to grab a generically good card is a tempo trap. Tutors shine when they fetch something that wins; otherwise you're just card-disadvantaged.

Related cards

Demonic TutorB

Cheaper two-mana version of the same unconditional tutor.

Vampiric TutorB

Instant-speed tutor to top of library at low cost.

Grim TutorB

Three-mana black tutor to hand with life loss.

Diabolic IntentB

Sacrifice a creature to tutor any card to hand.

Beseech the MirrorB

Tutor with bargain to cast for free, strong upgrade.

Mastermind's AcquisitionB

Four-mana tutor to hand or from outside the game.

Dark PetitionB

Tutor that can refund mana with spell mastery.

Wishclaw TalismanB

Cheap repeatable tutor at cost of giving opponent a search.

Printings (20)

plstThe List · #ODY-129U$1.18Buy
sldSecret Lair Drop · #1592R$9.56Buy
pw24Wizards Play Network 2024 · #13R$2.34Buy
sldSecret Lair Drop · #721R$30.13Buy
cmaCommander Anthology · #54U$2.11Buy
kldKaladesh · #75U$2.03Buy
cn2Conspiracy: Take the Crown · #132U$2.43Buy
m14Magic 2014 · #95U$1.96Buy
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m12Magic 2012 · #92U$1.67Buy
cmdCommander 2011 · #77U$2.21Buy
m11Magic 2011 · #93U$1.58Buy
m10Magic 2010 · #91U$1.82Buy
10eTenth Edition · #135U$1.54Buy
phukHachette UK · #51U—Buy
psalSalvat 2005 · #A51U—Buy
9edNinth Edition · #125U$1.23Buy
9edNinth Edition · #125★U$16.00Buy
8edEighth Edition · #128U$1.36Buy
8edEighth Edition · #128★U$10.13Buy
odyOdyssey · #129U$3.79Buy

Played by these commanders

Kaalia of the Vast100% of 2

Combos (6)

  • Approach of the Second Sun + Diabolic Tutor

    → Win the game

  • Temporal Manipulation + Seasons Past + Diabolic Tutor

    → Infinite turns, Lock

  • Time Warp + Seasons Past + Diabolic Tutor

    → Infinite turns, Lock

  • Walk the Aeons + Seasons Past + Diabolic Tutor

    → Infinite turns, Lock

  • Capture of Jingzhou + Seasons Past + Diabolic Tutor

    → Infinite turns, Lock

  • Time Walk + Seasons Past + Diabolic Tutor

    → Infinite turns, Lock

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