Coveted Prize
Underneath the tutor is a Diabolic Tutor with a discount schedule, and the discount is what makes the card interesting. Every party member shaves a mana off the cost, so a board with all four roles can turn a five-mana search into a single black. That floor is easy: any black deck can meet the tutor half without ever assembling a body. The ceiling is where the design commits. Field one of each of the four classes and a spell from your hand costing four or less gets cast for free off the back of the same resolution. Those two halves pull the deckbuilder apart. The tutor wants a spell-dense list; the free cast wants a lean creature curve wide enough to cover all four roles, which most tutor-hungry decks would never run. That contradiction is the point: the payoff feels earned because it demands a board state tutors don't usually care about. Sorcery timing keeps it honest. You build the party over multiple turns, then cash it in on your own main phase, with no way to flash the reduction into an unexpected discount or ambush a free spell during someone else's step. The escalation is real, but it is escalation you have to construct in the open, one class at a time, before the card pays you back.




