Want to take your black Commander deck to the next level? Running tutors will make any deck more consistent and bump up its power level.
Before you go adding every tutor to your decklist, consider what kind of power level you want your deck to have. If your playgroup is high-powered Commander, these cards will help you win or overcome oppressive strategies, but more casual pods may find them off-putting.
We’ve also got a few tutors that more casual pods will find socially acceptable, so there’s something for everyone.
Because tutors are so powerful and often printed at higher rarity, they can be pricey, so you may want to consider the cost when choosing which tutors to run.
Let the dark ritual begin! Here are the Top 12 Best Tutors in MTG for Your Commander & EDH Deck:
#1 Demonic Tutor

Demonic Tutor is the best tutor in MTG and in Commander. It’s the cheapest mana value tutor to hand that has no conditions or downsides built in. Whether it is cEDH or casual, run this tutor and your deck will be happy (although your pod might not be).
#2 Vampiric Tutor

Vampiric Tutor is the best one-mana tutor in the game. The only real downside is the card goes on top of your library instead of into your hand. There are ways your opponent can abuse this, such as casting Siphon Insight or other abilities that interact with the top cards of your library.
Since Vampiric Tutor puts cards on top of your library instead of into your hand, it’s also negative card advantage. Despite that, tutoring the very best card into your next draw for only a single mana is incredibly powerful, and thanks to instant speed, you’ll likely be drawing that card immediately.
#3 Imperial Seal

Imperial Seal is Vampiric Tutor at sorcery speed. It’s significantly better to tutor at instant speed, but a one-mana tutor is still a one-mana tutor. You’ll run these cards all day if you can.
#4 Wishclaw Talisman

Wishclaw Talisman looks bad on the surface. For three-mana, you get a card, but then your opponents do too.
Wishclaw is best used in a combo deck that wants to win on its turn. Cast Wishclaw for two, and then wait until you have the combo win set up. For a single mana on your turn, grab the win conditions and go for the win. Because Wishclaw can only be activated on your turn, your opponent won’t be able to grab a response with it until their turn.
#5 Grim Tutor

Grim Tutor is about as average as a tutor can get. At three-mana, it’s better than most three-mana draw cards, but it makes it harder to play your combo or answer an opponent on the turn you cast it.
#6 Diabolic Intent

Depending on your deck, Diabolic Intent will be higher or lower on this list. If you’re running an aristocrat deck or a heavy creature-based deck, it’s going to be more powerful than Grim Tutor.
Because Diabolic Intent works better with creature synergies, it’s often more socially acceptable in casual pods than straight-up unconditional tutors like Demonic Tutor.
#7 Beseech the Mirror

New from Wilds of Eldraine is Beseech the Mirror. Talk about power creep from Diabolic Tutor. If you’re running things that can be bargained, Beseech the Mirror is a free tutor!
If you’re going for a win, tap your Arcane Signet, bargain it, and play the card you searched for free.
The biggest limitation here is the triple black mana cost. Not easy for three-color decks.
#8 Insatiable Avarice

Insatiable Avarice had a lot of hype when it was spoiled earlier this year in Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
This tutor provides a lot of flexibility. Drawing three cards for three-mana is a fantastic rate in Commander, and paying two to guarantee the best draw possible is gravy on top.
Virtually every mono-black or black/x deck should consider this card in their Commander build.
#9 Scheming Symmetry

Scheming Symmetry looks bad on the surface, but plays well in real life. If the table is getting wrecked, you can play politics and reach an agreement with another player to set yourself ahead while saving someone else from an opponent.
#10 Doomsday

Doomsday is an all-in tutor. You’ll get all the combo cards you need to win the game, but you’re left with only five cards to draw before you lose.
If your combo gets countered, you’re probably out of luck. Your life total is also going to become under pressure when you’re down to 20 or less.
#11 Dark Petition

Toward the mid-game, Dark Petition becomes a pseudo Demonic Tutor thanks to spell mastery. You have to use the mana right away though. If you aren’t casting anything on your turn, what are you doing anyway?
One downside of Dark Petition being five-mana is that you can’t use it when you’re mana screwed. Sometimes you just need to tutor a Sol Ring or land. It happens more often than you think.
#12 Diabolic Tutor

We’re ending this list with one of the most well known tutors of all, Diabolic Tutor. Is it great? Not really. Will it win you the game? Probably not. Are people in your Commander pod socially okay with you casting this tutor? Maybe.
Check out that artwork though. Pretty sweet.
That’s it for our list of the 12 Best Black Tutors in MTG Commander and EDH format. We hope you’ll be able to brew a sick deck with these additions.
If you’re looking for other spicy Commander cards, check out our list of the best board wipes in the format.
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