Demonic Bargain
Sorcery
Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.46
- EDHREC rank
- #14676
Demonic Bargain tutors any card directly to hand for three mana — the catch is exiling the top thirteen cards of your library, which is a real cost in a 99-card singleton format. Run it when you need a fourth or fifth tutor in a deck that wins on the spot with the card it finds, and skip it everywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Demonic Bargain is a Commander card through and through — the 99-card library cushions the exile cost enough to make the tutor effect worth it, especially in combo decks that win immediately after finding their piece. In competitive EDH, it slots in as tutor five or six behind Vampiric Tutor and Demonic Tutor, which charge less and cost less library. In Legacy and Vintage, faster and cheaper tutors make it unplayable — no one is paying three mana to search when Imperial Seal and Demonic Tutor exist. Pioneer and Modern have the card legal but no reason to run it; those formats move too fast for a three-mana sorcery that exiles a chunk of your deck.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.46 bulk tier
At $0.46, Demonic Bargain sits in bulk territory — reasonable given that it's a niche tutor with a meaningful drawback that keeps it out of most lists. The price is unlikely to move much unless a high-profile combo deck canonizes it, so grab copies cheaply if your build wants the redundancy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.