Demonic Counsel
Sorcery
Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $1.76
- EDHREC rank
- #1893
Demonic Counsel puts three Demons onto the battlefield at once — that's immediate, massive board presence for a single card. The cost is real: you lose half your hand, which punishes you hard if you're not already running low or generating value from the discard.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ardyn, the Usurper
Ardyn, the Usurper cares about Demons entering and dying, and Demonic Counsel delivers three of them simultaneously — that's three separate triggers off a single spell, which is exactly the kind of density Ardyn needs to snowball.
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
Be'lakor, the Dark Master draws cards whenever a Demon enters the battlefield, so Demonic Counsel's three-for-one entry immediately replaces itself and then some, turning the hand-loss cost into a minor inconvenience.
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
The Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept pairing leans into cost-reduction and artifact synergies, and Demonic Counsel slots in as a high-impact bomb that floods the board when the deck has already filtered its hand down through artifact cycling.
Raphael, Fiendish Savior
Raphael, Fiendish Savior gives all Demons lifelink and a death-trigger replacement effect, so the three bodies from Demonic Counsel each gain those bonuses the moment they land — free lifelink on a wide board is a significant stabilization swing.
Kaalia of the Vast
Kaalia of the Vast cheats Angels, Demons, and Dragons into play, and Demonic Counsel gives her pilots a redundant way to flood the board with Demons when Kaalia herself is answered, shoring up the deck's single point of failure.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Demonic Counsel is purpose-built — three Demons at once is exactly what Demon-tribal and Demon-payoff commanders want, and the hand cost matters far less at a 100-card singleton table where you're often top-decking by mid-game anyway. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play in any of those formats — competitive non-Commander environments reward instant-speed interaction and card advantage, neither of which Demonic Counsel provides. Treat it as a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.76 cheap tier
At $1.76, Demonic Counsel sits squarely in the cheap tier — low enough that it's an easy include if your commander wants it, with no meaningful budget barrier. It's a narrow card with a specific home, so there's little reason to expect the price to move significantly in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ardyn, the Usurper
- Be'lakor, the Dark Master
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior
- Kaalia of the Vast
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.