Sadistic Tutor
Custom Cards forum
Posted on Feb. 12, 2015, 12:28 p.m. by klone13
Mana Cost: 0
Instant
Sadistic Tutor is black.
As an additional cost to Sadistic Tutor pay 7 life.
Search your library for a card and put it into your hand.
Screams win on turn one, would probably be banned in all format is was legal in
February 12, 2015 12:31 p.m.
An instant speed tutor that you have to pay 7 life for? That's really too good.
February 12, 2015 12:32 p.m.
even if it was a sorcery, it would be overpowered as f***
February 12, 2015 12:34 p.m.
It would be banned in every format except restricted in vintage. Should I change to 10 life.
February 12, 2015 12:34 p.m.
yeah vintage and EDH would play this if it said 19 life.
February 12, 2015 12:37 p.m.
ItchiUchiha117 says... #12
How about if you pay X life and grab a card with CMC X or less and reveal it? At sorcery speed, of course. Maybe still have it cost a single black at that point, though.
February 12, 2015 12:41 p.m.
I mean all this says in vintage is
"You start with a life total of X. You may have two copies of black lotus in your deck. Have fun comboing off turn one. Or if you have the combo already, go get FOW to stop the guy trying to combo block you. "
It is by definition a card that would warp any format around it requiring deck to build answers for it or play it. That is bannable,.
February 12, 2015 12:44 p.m.
klone13 - Vampiric Tutor is restricted in Vintage and it's an insane card, AND it puts the card on top instead of in the hand. Having the card be "free" with only a life payment is an easy way to make a busted card. The only way this card could even get remotely printable was if it said:
Instant
Sadistic tutor is black
As an additional cost to cast Sadistic Tutor, pay 19 life.
You lose the game at the end of your next turn.
And even then it's probably too good.
February 12, 2015 12:45 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #15
The only way that a free tutor would be not-bannable would to have it say:
Search your library for any card and put it into your hand. For the rest of the game, you cannot play spells with the same name as the card chosen with this ability.
Any amount of life that isn't your entire life total is too few. Tutoring in Magic is too good.
February 12, 2015 12:55 p.m.
PlattBonnay says... #16
even that would be too good. There are far too many ways to cheat things into play, and it doesnt restrict getting lands (because they are not spells), a free tutor is always going to be too good.
February 12, 2015 1:15 p.m.
slovakattack says... #17
Cost: 
Instant
"Name a creature. Search your library for a creature card with the same name as that creature, and put it in your hand. Until the end of turn, creatures with the same name as that creature cost 
less to cast. Creatures with the same name as that creature gain 'cumulative upkeep ' when they enter play."
Hue hue hue hue
February 12, 2015 3:26 p.m.
PlattBonnay says... #18
But then you've got a tutor that doubles as a removal spell.
If you cast that and name elvish mystic (random example, by go with it), search your library, and fail to find (presumably because you aren't playing any), now all of your opponents mystics cost 6 and kill themselves, effectively removing them from the game.
February 12, 2015 3:35 p.m.
slovakattack says... #19
PlattBonnay: True. It needs "Creatures YOU CONTROL with the same name..."
February 12, 2015 3:50 p.m.
You should lose the game on the end step. Forces it to be used in combo decks
February 15, 2015 12:15 p.m.
Didgeridooda says... #21
Custom cards are always OP. This one is no exception. This card would be banned in Vintage.
February 15, 2015 10:38 p.m.
Didgeridooda says... #22
Klone, 0 cost cards are tough to not make OP. Tutor custom cards are as well.
When you go to make a custom card, take cards that are similar, and see what happened with them. Instant speed is also a huge deal. Difference between instant and sorcery on many cards is 1 in the cmc. At least on many of the sorceries, that I can think of with instant counterparts.
Dylan says... #2
Seems really OP
February 12, 2015 12:31 p.m.