I was going to say it is worse than Cruel Tutor, but you could abuse the loophole to use it to read your library...
Posted By:
Maxofthehouse
(2/21/2014 5:13:54 AM)
It's a mid-range tutor with a very small drawback. There's not much point in comparing it to other tutors, it usually boils down to 1) Does it put the card right into your hand? and 2) How much mana do it cost? This one's flavor text is pretty prophetic, though – punish it! Give it the banhammer!! Otherwise those greedy players will never learn to rely on chance and actually have some differentiated fun.
Posted By:
Goatllama
(11/7/2012 2:10:08 PM)
Play with R&D's Secret Lair. The original text says nothing about shuffling your library.
Posted By:
James00086
(1/17/2013 11:18:48 PM)
it's less about Bans/Restrictions than it is about Rarity. Supply and Demand.
Check out From the Vault: Exiled: every one of those cards was banned, and many are still banned. Even the 'money' rare of the set is only worth $40, not $200. That's because they all got reprinted, increasing the supply, helping people who want them, to have them.
Banning a card ALWAYS reduces it's price. ALWAYS. because the card is no longer useable in tournaments where you can win big money and make it worth it to buy these pieces of paper.
But, Not-Reprinting an even Medium-Powerful card for a very long time always INCREASES its price. Check out how Doubling Season had been creeping up for some time before the Judge Promo and the Modern Masters copies started alleviating the stress on the Market.
Demonic Tutor, banned or not, is worth $20 because it was in Duel Decks, the second-largest Reprint Entry for a card besides an actual Standard-legal Expansion set.
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Posted By:
DarthParallax
(11/1/2013 9:36:46 AM)
So the Grim Tutor is Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Posted By:
EGarrett01
(1/14/2014 12:43:25 AM)
@Eluem Legacy w/o force of will would be run by turn 1 combo decks.
Posted By:
Ligerman30
(4/21/2014 2:09:20 PM)
Guest738348951@ : It's not expensive purely because it's unrestricted; it's also expensive because very few copies exist. There are way more copies of Demonic Tutor out there, since it was printed in many sets, all of which got a larger printing than Portal.
Posted By:
Aquillion
(6/2/2014 8:42:39 AM)