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Rune-Scarred Demon

Creature — Demon5 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Demonic Tutor stapled to a 6/6 flyer is the whole pitch, and it works because the body and the search both want to cost more than the bare spell. Demonic Tutor was famously undercosted at two mana; here the tutor is rebuilt as an enters-the-battlefield trigger, so seven mana buys an unconditional library search and a flying clock that ends the game before the fetched card has to. The trigger structure is what gives it staying power across long games. Anything that flickers, recurs, or reanimates it re-runs the search, turning a one-shot tutor into a repeatable one and a 6/6 into a chassis for value loops. The card the search finds matters more than the demon: a single black creature can fetch a combo piece, a board wipe, a missing land, or another threat, then stay on the table as a beater that demands an answer. The cost is the only restriction worth naming, and it cuts in a specific way. The trigger itself is bulletproof: it hits the stack the moment the Demon lands and resolves whether or not the Demon survives, so a removal spell in response still leaves you holding whatever you searched for. What removal denies you is the clock, not the card. Seven mana buys immediate, unconditional card selection now and a threat later, and the second half is the part an opponent can actually take away.

Rune-Scarred Demon (pfdn)
PFDN · #184srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a 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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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