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Demonic Counsel

Sorcery1 generic manaBlack mana

Demonic Tutor with a downpayment plan. The base mode is deliberately narrow: two mana to fetch a Demon and only a Demon, a tribal finder most decks cannot cash in because they run no Demons worth pulling. The delirium clause is where the card earns its name, converting that restriction into unrestricted black tutoring once the graveyard holds enough variety. That conditional is doing real balancing work: it prices the flexibility not in mana but in setup, asking you to spread instants, sorceries, creatures, artifacts, enchantments, or lands across your yard before the second half unlocks. The tension is between the two audiences the card serves. A dedicated Demon deck gets a cheap, reliable finder from turn two, restriction and all; a delirium-forward graveyard shell ignores the tribal text entirely and treats this as a two-mana any-card tutor with a warm-up cost. Both readings live on the same card, and which one applies is a function of how the deck is built rather than anything the tutor itself does. It is a design that folds a tribal payoff and a general-purpose enabler into one printing, letting the graveyard state decide which the card is on any given turn.

Demonic Counsel (dsk)
DSK · #310rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.42
Foil: $3.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

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.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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