Demonic Consultation – MTG Proxy Secret Lair Drop Series

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Demonic Consultation

Black mana

Mana value: 1 · Color identity: Black

Instant

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
Card format legality
Commander
Legal
Modern
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Standard
Not legal
Legacy
Banned
Vintage
Restricted
Pauper
Not legal

Format status describes the underlying Magic card, not eligibility of this printed product for sanctioned play.

Updated

Card rulings 4
  1. You don't name a card until Demonic Consultation resolves.
  2. If you don't reveal the named card (perhaps because it was in the top six cards of your library), you'll end up exiling your entire library. You don't lose the game at that point, but will lose the next time you're instructed to draw a card.
  3. There is no way to make this card affect your opponent. It affects "you", and "you" means the controller of the spell. It has no targets.
  4. You must name a card that actually exists in the game of Magic.

Updated

Demonic Consultation is a one-mana instant that searches for a named card through an unusually risky exile process. After you choose the name, it exiles the top six cards, then reveals cards until the named card appears. That card goes to your hand and the other revealed cards are exiled, making the spell extremely efficient when it succeeds and potentially devastating when it does not.

Thassa's Oracle provides a deliberate use for exiling the entire library in a deck with blue. With Oracle's entry trigger on the stack, naming a card absent from your library lets Consultation exile everything remaining. Oracle can then satisfy its win condition when its trigger resolves, provided opponents do not disrupt the relevant pieces or otherwise change the outcome.

As an ordinary tutor, the initial six-card exile is the main danger. If the only copy of your named card is among those six, the subsequent search cannot find it and continues through the library. You also lose access to other cards exiled along the way, which can remove backup plans or essential answers even when the named card is found.

Use Consultation with a clear purpose and an exact understanding of your deck. It fits compact combo strategies that intentionally exploit its exile effect more naturally than slower value decks that need their remaining library intact. Its instant speed offers flexible timing, but it does not protect the resulting sequence from countermagic or other interaction.

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