Diabolic Vision
Sorcery
Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #7346
Diabolic Vision filters five cards and puts the best one in hand for just two mana — that's Brainstorm-adjacent value at instant-speed in a format where card selection wins games. Aminatou, Veil Piercer decks run it at nearly a 45% clip because topping the library matters as much as drawing from it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer triggers off cards with the highest mana value among permanents you control, so Diabolic Vision does double duty: it selects the highest-impact spell for the turn while stacking the top of your library to maximize Aminatou, Veil Piercer's next trigger.
Marvo, Deep Operative
Marvo, Deep Operative cares about the top card of your library at nearly every decision point, and Diabolic Vision lets you engineer exactly what that card is — setting up a free cast off Marvo's ability while still drawing a card you actually want.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Diabolic Vision earns its slot: the singleton format makes card selection disproportionately powerful, and two mana to see five and keep one is legitimate filtering at any point in the game. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but buried under Brainstorm, which does strictly more for the same cost and interacts with fetchlands. Diabolic Vision occupies a real niche in Oathbreaker, where the smaller deck size makes library manipulation even more reliable. Outside those formats it's not legal, and frankly the competition in the formats where it is legal means Commander is the only place it's genuinely worth a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Diabolic Vision is bulk — pick up a copy without a second thought. Bulk spell prices this low rarely move unless a reprint raises the floor, so don't expect it to appreciate, but there's no reason not to own a stack of them.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.