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Diabolic Revelation

SorceryX generic mana3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Where most black tutors fetch one card and ask you to pick correctly, this one scales: spend more mana, draw out more of your deck into your hand in a single sorcery. That changes the kind of card it is. A Demonic Tutor or Vampiric Tutor is a precision instrument, a needle for the one answer or combo piece the situation demands. This is a closing bid, the tutor you cast when mana is no longer the constraint and you want to assemble an entire endgame at once: a combo's worth of pieces, every land you still need, both halves of a two-card kill. The X generic mana cost is where the design draws its line. At small values it is a wildly inefficient single-card search, and the colored commitment only pays off once the late game has arrived and X generic mana can climb to six, eight, or more. It also reshuffles afterward rather than putting cards on top, so it pairs with the slow, mana-rich decks that can stomach the full price and want their library shuffled rather than stacked. The job is not finesse. It is the moment a long game tips and one black sorcery converts a surplus of mana into a fistful of exactly the right cards.

Diabolic Revelation (m13)
M13 · #87rare
Pricing
Normal: $12.89
Foil: $11.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

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