Reveal a card in your hand. Search
your library for a card with the same
name as the revealed card, reveal it,
and put it into your hand.
Shuffle your library.
Hellbent - If you have no cards in your
hand, search your library for a card and
put it into your hand.
Shuffle your library.
Infernal Tutor
Dissension
Reviewed April 19, 2006
Constructed: 3.37
Casual: 2.87
Limited: 2.7
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
5 is the highest rating
This card has some potential. If the Hellbent
mechanic goes over as well as expected, you can
expect to see a lot of this card. It will
definitely be a rare to keep your eyes on. It
will be interesting to see which decks and
actually put a card like this to use. For now, I
would expect this card to have only minor use in
limited play.
What we
have here is a card that appears to have one
function, but truly has three. There are three
situations where it gets cast, anyway. The
first, and most effective, is obviously casting
it when you have Hellbent - thereby making it
the same as the old classic Demonic Tutor.
Obviously that's an incredibly powerful effect.
If you're not casting it with Hellbent, then
it's either searching for a decent other card in
your hand or - as may happen an unfortunate
number of times - casting it to search for
something fairly useless that you simply can't
get out of your hand. The Rakdos' ability to
discard cards or otherwise use them for effects
is going to be vital to the strength of Hellbent
cards. Furthermore, this card has little if any
place in limited. That should create some
interesting situations where people are forced
to choose between a decent common or uncommon
(like the devastating Wrecking Ball) and this
card - which will undoubtedly be a money rare.
How can you argue with a tutor? But here's the
thing. You'll probably want to search for
whatever you want, not just something already in
your hand in most cases. So if you're really
playing the Hellbent mechanic in your deck, this
could really be a bargain at 1B. The question
is, will Hellbent find a niche in standard
constructed. Time will tell.
Constructed - 3
Casual - 3.5
Limited - 1.5
BMoor
Infernal Tutor
Unlike yesterday's card, this card's power level
is hugely different whether or not you have
hellbent. If you don't, you can only get a
redundant copy of something you already have.
And you have to reveal a card in your hand, so
if you wanted to fetch a counterspell, that's a
bit tricky (now your opponent knows you have
two). But once your hand is empty, it becomes
Demonic Tutor, one of the best search cards ever
printed. I guarantee it'll find a place in
constructed, where everyone is desperate to
remove randomness as a factor. In limited, you
tend to have one copy each of a few disgustingly
good cards plus lots of filler, so definitely
put this in your deck but don't waste it if you
don't have hellbent.
