Excellent alternative to Demonic Tutor for those of us on a budget and better than Diabolic Tutor IMO. Definitely consider running a few of these if you have a deck with a decent amount of black in it.
Owls_and_More_Owls
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
"Oh hey, look. It's my giant demon creature. Would you look at that." pew pew lasers.
Catmurderer
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Can you search for lands?
mdakw576
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Yes you can search for lands.
This is almost definitely better than Diabolic Tutor, since you're paying 1 less mana (and at the very worst paying 2BB), and in most cases the card you're looking for should satisfy this card's requirement.
qaq456
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
how is it a game ender? its a game ender starter
SIlverSkyz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
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ZombieSnail
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Epic function and flavor. The hybrid mana is cool. 4.5/5
midnightvenom
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
better than diabolic tutor simply because of the art.
alucard311
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I like this; it gives all colors some tutelary resources.
metalevolence
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
In EDH, I usually run both, but I'll run diabolic tutor before this. In a deck that's not mono black, rarely will it be easier to pay than . More importantly, however, diabolic tutor doesn't make you reveal the card, which is worth much, much more than one mana.
DoragonShinzui
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
What's nice is that if you hardcast it in other colors, you'll have the land to fetch most anything you need. And there needs to be colorless tutoring. I don't get how that's a particularly "black" effect.
DarthParallax
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I feel this could be fine @ instant speed.
I am probably incorrect to think that, but I still think it's possible for an instant speed tutor to be ok.
Noteworthily, you can put this in a 5 color EDH deck, and likely enough have no qualms about paying even {4}{B} for it. In 60 card decks, you just don't use this card if you're not paying {B}{B}{B} because you want to be playing fast and a bit Spikey.
In 100-card decks, a) your games go longer, and b) you'll be playing higher-costing cards with your more amount of lands. 5 mana to tutor up a haymaker is fair, 5 mana to tutor more draw or tutor effects to fuel a combo, which is the 60-card use I see for it, is considered too slow.
In a properly rainbow-colored deck with lots of Duals, you might even get to cast it for {B}{B}{B} but {4}{B} is honestly not a deal-breaker to get some things. It's just a really, really versatile tool for {B}/X decks.
BongRipper420
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Everything about this card is beautiful.
Smoke_Stack
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
not instant speed for a good reason. If you could tap out at your opponent's end step and then play what you tutored on your turn, it would be way past OP. Course, if you were playing UBR and had a hypersonic dragon out...
Bobth
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I love this card, easily the coolest tutor out there, and costed fair enough for play. For some reason it just occured to me that the Queen they're talking about is probably Oona, Queen of the Fae. I always thought it was some nameless powerful entity from Kamigawa, with that kimono it looks like she's wearing.
raptorman333
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
tutor in a casual white deck? solid.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This could have been a hard tutor and would have been fair. Its a little bit more interesting with the condition, but revealing hurts this card and your probably better off paying 1 more for diabolic tutor. Esp if you want to search for a big mana card.
Babyjenks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The fact that this is played in legacy and diabolic tutor is not should pretty much put that argument to rest.
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This is almost definitely better than Diabolic Tutor, since you're paying 1 less mana (and at the very worst paying 2BB), and in most cases the card you're looking for should satisfy this card's requirement.
And there needs to be colorless tutoring. I don't get how that's a particularly "black" effect.
I am probably incorrect to think that, but I still think it's possible for an instant speed tutor to be ok.
Noteworthily, you can put this in a 5 color EDH deck, and likely enough have no qualms about paying even {4}{B} for it. In 60 card decks, you just don't use this card if you're not paying {B}{B}{B} because you want to be playing fast and a bit Spikey.
In 100-card decks, a) your games go longer, and b) you'll be playing higher-costing cards with your more amount of lands. 5 mana to tutor up a haymaker is fair, 5 mana to tutor more draw or tutor effects to fuel a combo, which is the 60-card use I see for it, is considered too slow.
In a properly rainbow-colored deck with lots of Duals, you might even get to cast it for {B}{B}{B} but {4}{B} is honestly not a deal-breaker to get some things. It's just a really, really versatile tool for {B}/X decks.