Diabolic Intent

Demonic Tutor charges two mana and a card to fetch anything; this design keeps the mana cost identical and bolts a creature onto the bill as an additional cost. That extra clause is the whole identity. A two-mana unconditional black tutor is already premium, so the question is never whether the rate is good but whether the body you spend is one you wanted to keep, and in the shells this card lives in the answer is almost always no. Sacrifice-and-recursion decks treat creatures as fungible currency: a token, a dying utility piece, a creature you planned to reanimate anyway. Fed into those engines, the sacrifice frequently triggers value on its own (a death payoff, a graveyard you wanted stocked), so the "cost" pays you on the way to fetching whatever you need. The discipline is sharp at the edges. You must have a creature to spend, so the card is dead in the rare empty-board moment, and it reaches only into the library, never the graveyard or battlefield. Within those bounds it does the same archetypal work as Demonic Tutor but pulls deckbuilding in a different direction: toward a creature-dense, sacrifice-fueled engine rather than a spell-based one. That pull, not the search clause, is what makes it read differently from the cards it sits beside.