Beseech the Queen
Sorcery
(
can be paid with any two mana or with 
. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $11.41
- EDHREC rank
- #3187
Beseech the Queen tutors for any card in your library and puts it directly into your hand — the triple-black cost is trivial in a mono-black shell and essentially free with K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth converting life to mana, which makes it functionally comparable to Temporal Manipulation in terms of raw game-warping power for its slot. Run it in any black deck that can reliably produce three black pips; the flexibility of fetching any card at sorcery speed for three mana is the whole argument.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth converts life to black mana, so Beseech the Queen costs two life and two generic mana in practice — that's an absurdly efficient tutor that finds whatever combo piece closes the game.
Witherbloom, the Balancer
Witherbloom, the Balancer operates in black-green and leans on life as a resource, making the triple-black pip of Beseech the Queen easy to satisfy while the life-gain and drain engines offset the cost of casting it repeatedly through recursion loops.
Phage the Untouchable
Phage the Untouchable has one goal: reach the battlefield through a legal vector like Torpor Orb or Platinum Angel, and Beseech the Queen is one of the most efficient ways to find whichever piece is missing from that setup.
Acererak the Archlich
Acererak the Archlich needs to complete dungeons repeatedly to go off, so Beseech the Queen serves as a redundant line to find the combo enablers — extra dungeon-traversal outlets or the pieces that make the loop infinite — that the deck relies on.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Beseech the Queen is a staple: unconditional, instant-speed tutors are rare at this price point, and any mono-black or heavy-black deck that can produce three black pips reliably should consider it. In Legacy and Vintage, it sits in an extremely competitive tutor market alongside Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Imperial Seal, so it sees fringe play at best — the sorcery speed and triple-pip cost are real costs in those formats where mana is precious and speed matters. Modern gives Beseech the Queen more breathing room since the format lacks the most broken tutor alternatives, and black devotion or midrange shells can cast it without issue, though it remains a niche inclusion. Pioneer and Standard players are out of luck — the card isn't legal in either — and Pauper is similarly closed off.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Temporal ManipulationSeasons PastBeseech the Queen
Infinite turns; Lock
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Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Diabolic Tutor hits any card at sorcery speed for four generic and two black mana and costs under $0.50, making it the cleanest budget stand-in for Beseech the Queen in decks that can't reliably generate three black pips. Mastermind's Acquisition runs closer to $1 and adds the upside of grabbing cards from outside the game in some formats, though the double-black requirement is lighter if that's the constraint; neither replacement matches Beseech the Queen's efficiency in a mono-black shell with life-payment synergies, but either gets the job done in a budget build.
Price Context
Current price
$11.41 mid tier
At $11.41, Beseech the Queen sits in the mid tier — more expensive than Diabolic Tutor but well below the $30–50 range of Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor, which is exactly where a flexible, format-legal tutor with broad Commander demand should land. The price is fair for what it does, and given its inclusion across mono-black combo, life-payment, and devotion strategies, there's no reason to expect it to crater.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.