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Infernal Tutor

Sorcery1 generic manaBlack mana

Empty your hand and this becomes an unconditional black tutor for two mana, fetching any card with no restriction whatsoever; keep cards in hand and it degrades into a redundant doubler that can only find a second copy of something you already hold. That gap between the two modes is the entire design, and it is what shaped the card into a combo enabler rather than a generic value tutor. Hellbent demands the cast happen as the last card in hand, or close to it, which dovetails with precisely the decks that want an unrestricted search in the first place: rituals, a payoff spell, and a plan to dump everything before going off. Spending your hand is the cost, and storm-style shells happily pay it, chaining mana and cantrips down to nothing before reaching for the piece that wins. At its weak mode, revealing a card to grab its twin, it patches a consistency problem. At its strong mode, it rivals the cheapest no-strings tutors black has ever printed, Demonic Tutor included. Most tutors fold their flexibility into the mana cost. This one folds it into a board state instead, withholding the full effect until you arrive at an empty hand, and the shells engineered to do that on purpose have always treated the restriction as a feature.

Infernal Tutor (j20)
J20 · #5rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it 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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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