Grim Tutor

Demonic Tutor's body double, priced in life instead of efficiency. The original gets any card for two mana with no further cost; this one asks for an extra mana and three life as the tax for the same unconditional search. That payment is the entire design conversation around the card. A tutor that fetches literally any card is among the strongest effects black has, and the question is never whether the effect is good but what the format is willing to charge for it. Two mana proved too cheap for most everything outside the fastest formats; this version answers by making you pay in the resource black has always been most comfortable spending. The life loss matters more than the extra mana, because it scales against you in exactly the decks that want unconditional searching most: storm shells, life-payment combo lines, low-curve black builds already bleeding from their own engines. The card is not a watered-down Demonic Tutor so much as a deliberate recalibration of where the same effect sits on the power curve, sold to a different risk tolerance. You still get the best card in your deck whenever you cast it; you just feel the cost in a place that compounds rather than a place you forget about the moment the spell resolves.