having run demonic consultation myself in EDH quite a bit, i can tell you that my target has a seemingly high chance of being in the top 6 cards of my library. It also exiles a huge chunk of the library, which can mean exiling useful wincons and so on.
If you're casting Demonic Consultation, you're expecting to win the game that turn or lose the game by your next draw step at the latest. Exiling wincon cards other than the one you named are irrelevant at that point.
Or you already have Laboratory Maniac out and you named a card that isn't even in your deck. Same difference.
But my original point was that once is good, twice is why.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Wouldn't the outright banning of all "search your deck for ANY card"-style of tutors be what you're looking for?
Sometimes you only need just one. Which, by the way, is also why Sidisi isn't the same as D-Tutor.
This is why Demonic Consultation is banned in Legacy, restricted in Vintage, but Divining Witch is a frequent guest on "Worst Card In Magic" lists. Being able to reuse a card easily just doesn't matter if that card can just grab you a win condition (or is a win condition).
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Or you already have Laboratory Maniac out and you named a card that isn't even in your deck. Same difference.
But my original point was that once is good, twice is why.
On phasing:
Sometimes you only need just one. Which, by the way, is also why Sidisi isn't the same as D-Tutor.
This is why Demonic Consultation is banned in Legacy, restricted in Vintage, but Divining Witch is a frequent guest on "Worst Card In Magic" lists. Being able to reuse a card easily just doesn't matter if that card can just grab you a win condition (or is a win condition).
On phasing: