Diabolic Tutor
Sorcery
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Anthology
- Price
- $2.09
- EDHREC rank
- #451
Diabolic Tutor finds any card in your library — a fully unconditional tutor — at the cost of four mana and a sorcery-speed restriction. That price is steep enough that competitive decks skip it, but in slower pods or when you need to assemble a specific piece like Approach of the Second Sun, it gets the job done; K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth cuts that cost to two life and two mana, which is a different conversation entirely.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth turns Diabolic Tutor into a two-life spell with no mana requirement beyond the initial already covered by K'rrik's passive, making it one of the most efficient ways to find a finisher or a combo piece mid-chain.
Phage the Untouchable
Phage the Untouchable has an extremely narrow list of ways to enter the battlefield safely, so Diabolic Tutor earns its slot by reliably fetching Torpor Orb, Illusionist's Bracers, or whatever protection piece the board demands.
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose wins through a two-card loop, and Diabolic Tutor is the most accessible way to find Exquisite Blood at instant speed — or whatever life-gain enabler the deck is missing to close the game.
Kaalia of the Vast
Kaalia of the Vast is useless without a live threat in hand, and Diabolic Tutor gives the deck a consistent line to fetch Reanimate, a game-ending Angel, or a combo piece when Kaalia gets repeatedly answered.
Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Kambal, Consul of Allocation wins on incremental tax damage, and Diabolic Tutor lets the deck find the enchantment or stax piece — Blind Obedience, Necropotence, whatever's missing — that locks the table out of recovering.
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 |
Diabolic Tutor is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play only in Commander. In every other format where tutors are viable, faster and cheaper options — Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Beseech the Queen — do the same job at half the cost or better, and four mana at sorcery speed is simply uncompetitive in sixty-card formats where the game is often over by turn four. Commander is where Diabolic Tutor finds its audience: the slower pace, singleton construction, and prevalence of black decks without access to the premium tutors all make a reliable any-card fetch worth the tempo loss. It's not a staple in high-powered Commander, but it's a reasonable include in casual and mid-power pods where the alternatives are unavailable or too expensive.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.09 cheap tier
At $2.09, Diabolic Tutor sits at the low end of the tutoring spectrum and represents the cheapest unconditional any-card fetch most players will ever run. The price is stable — mass printings have kept it accessible — so there's no urgency to stock up or fear of a spike.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.