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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor

Creature — Vampire Warlock // Sorcery

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7312
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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor card art
Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor is a vampire creature that staples a Demonic Tutor onto an aggressive body — the tutoring is free, and the only cost is running a two-mana 2/2 with upside rather than the instant-speed sorcery alone. Pair it with Spellweaver Helix or Edgar Markov's eminence-fueled vampire tribal shell and the card does double duty without asking for anything extra.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Edgar Markov

Edgar Markov

24.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Edgar Markov's eminence trigger fires the moment Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor hits the battlefield, so you get a free 1/1 vampire token plus a Demonic Tutor effect bundled into a single play. That's an absurd density of value for a two-mana slot in a deck that wants to flood the board and tutor up lord effects or finishers.

02
Silverquill, the Disputant

Silverquill, the Disputant

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Silverquill, the Disputant cares about spell-casting and value accumulation, and Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor delivers a creature plus a tutor in one card — exactly the kind of compressed tempo the deck rewards. The tutor grabs whatever piece of the engine is missing on that particular turn.

03

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

19.1% of decks · synergy 0.11

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER decks lean on black's tutoring to find specific combo or synergy pieces reliably, and Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor provides that line while also advancing board state with a relevant creature type. The redundancy is the point.

04
Evelyn, the Covetous

Evelyn, the Covetous

11.3% of decks · synergy 0.10

Evelyn, the Covetous wants vampires with high individual card quality, and Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor qualifies on both counts — it's a vampire that tutors up whatever you're missing, whether that's a lord, a finisher, or a piece of interaction.

05
Olivia Voldaren

Olivia Voldaren

12.6% of decks · synergy 0.10

Olivia Voldaren builds around vampire tribal and needs consistent access to key threats, so Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor functions as a low-cost on-ramp that fills gaps in hand while keeping the creature count high enough to matter.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor is essentially a role-player that earns its slot by bundling a tutor onto a creature — the 99-card singleton format rewards cards that do two things at once, and this does exactly that. In Legacy and Vintage, where raw Demonic Tutor is already legal, the creature half is mostly irrelevant noise; dedicated tutor shells won't want the two-mana body when they can just run the sorcery alone. Modern and Pioneer have historically lacked access to unrestricted unconditional tutors, so this card's legality there is notable — though whether the creature body is worth the slot depends entirely on whether the deck needs creatures at all. Oathbreaker is the other format where it shines most, since the compressed card-slot density matters in a 60-card format with a narrower win condition.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.