Tutor cards have been ingrained in the DNA of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering since its inception in 1993. Tutors are cards that let you search your library for another card, then put that card into your hand ౠor on top of your library.

Of course, that utility is incredibly valuable to MTG players as they’re able to reach into their deck and grab the card that will aid them the most in any given situation. Black is the col🦋or that’s most associated with tutors, as the first-ever tutor card debuted in that color in MTG’s original set, Alpha, so let’s explore the best tutors that Black has to offer.

10 Cruel Tutor 𒈔

Cruel But Not Unusual

Not all tutor cards have t𒅌he wordꦫ “tutor” in them, but some of the best and most memorable ones do. This card was released in the original Portal set from 1997 and features some stupendous art from Kev Walker.

While this card costs one more mana than ♌the original Alpha tutor (Demonic Tutor, more on that card later) and requires an additional payment of two life points, the card only goes on top of your deck, not into your hand, so is still a hi🗹ghly efficient tutor that’s only ever received a The List reprint.

9 Entomb

One Of The Most Efficient Graveyard Tutors

Because these tutors are part𝐆 of the black slice of MTG’s color wheel, anything that can place cards into your graveyard is al𝓀so highly effective, as they can be brought back from the ‘yard with various reanimation spells.

Entomb, which hails from 2001’s Odyssey set and is actually 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:that set’s most valuable card﷽, allows you to search your library for any card and put that card directly into your graveyard – only to be recurred later through whatever means are ♛at your disposal. Because this card does require at least one other card to access the card you fetched up, it just cracks the top 10, but the rate of one black mana to tutor any card is still too efficient to ignore.

8 💛 Beseech The Mirror

Cast The Searched Card For Free With This Tutor

This black mana-intensive tutor comes from 2023’🌊s Wilds of Eldraine set, and it immediately became one of the most valuable and s🦂trongest cards from that set upon release.

While four mana to tutor up any card from your deck isn’t ideal, if you seek out a card with mana value of four or less and then sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token🌳 as part of this card’s bargain cost, you get to cast the card for free – omitting the “middle man” that most tutors represent.

7 ꦗ Diabolic Intent

Sacrifice A Creature, Get Any Card

Originally released in 2001’s Planeshift set, this two-mana black tutor is the closest thing we’ve seen to the original tutor, Demonic Tutor. Of course, this card does require you to sacrifice a creature as an additional cost, but t🎃wo mana to put any card from your deck into your hand is ෴still the best rate in MTG history.

This🔯 card was not reprinted for over 15 years after it was released until it was part of the highly sought-after Amonkhet Invocations bonus sheet in that set and then followed up with a release in 2022 as part of The Brothers’ War set.

6 𒁃 Diabolic Tutor

Double The Cost Of Demonic Tutor, But Still Great

When this card was released in 2021, it immediately became an important cog in various top-flight decks of the time, all because it could search up any card from your library – for a mana cost that 𒀰is exactly double that of Demonic Tutor.

Instead of one colorless𝔍 and one black, this card costs two colorless and two black. Yet still, this card remains one of the best tutors of all time, as it features no drawbacks and can simply get you what you want when you want it.

5 ♍ Profane Tutor

Nifty Demonic Tutor On Layaway

A Demonic Tutor on layaway, this card from Modern Horizons 2 provides the ♏same effect as the original tutor for the same mana cost – but you don’t reap the benefits of the card until turn four when the last time counter from it is removed while it’s in exile.

While this might sound like a drawback, if you’re playing this on curve, that can be some൩what beneficial as you’ll be able to play whatever card you fetched immediately, so long as you have the mana to do so.

4 Grim Tutor 🏅

Nothing Grim About Grabbing Any Card You’d Like

Originally released in the Starter 1999 set, this card did⛎n’t see a reprint for over 20 years, when it was upgraded to a mythic rare as part of Core Set 2021. Tremendously efficient, this card still pales in comparison to some of the other tutors in the top three of this list.

However, three mana and three life for any card in your 𓂃deck is almost always a rate that players will be willing to pay, as the life-loss will likely be offseꦯt by whatever combo piece or massive threat that you pulled out of your library.

3 Imperial Seal 🧸

A Supremely Rare Tutor With Scant Reprints

Yet another black tutor from a Starter or Portal set that didn’t see a reprint for over two decades, this one was originally released in the eminently scarce Portal Three Kingdoms set and then wasn🦹’t reprinted until Double🌼 Masters 2022.

This card is still incredibly scarce and tremendously valuable, but that’s because its effect – grab any card from your deck and put it on top of your library, at the cost of two life points – is massively powerful and efficient. If oꦑnly it was an instant…

2 Vampiric Tutor 𝕴

The Best One-Mana Black Tutor Ever

And there it is, an instant-speed version of Imperial Seal 🎶that is easily among the best tutor cards of all time.

Vampiric Tutor and its brethren from Mirage Block – Enlightened Tutor in white, Mystical Tutor in blue, and Worldly Tutor in green – helped to define this style of card ♌alongside the original tutor, which also happens to be the best black tutor of all time.

1 Demon🥀ic Tutor🀅

The Gold Standard For Tutor Cards

What a surprise, the fines🔜t-ever black tutor was the first one ever printed way back in 1993’s Alpha set. As you’ve seen, all cards on this list have been a reaction to – and sometimes a direct reference to – the original tutor ever printed in MTG history.

While it is “only” a sorcery, Demonic Tutor still provides exactly what you’re looking for – with absolutely no drawbacks – for only two mana. We’ll never see a tutor this efficient again, so it’s no surprise that this card retains a hefty price point across all printings (though it's not among the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:most valuable Demon cards) – and also th▨at it’s easily the bes💙t black tutor of all time.