Card
Vampiric Tutor
Mana cost {B}
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Game Changer: not allowed in brackets 1–2, counts as one of the three allowed in bracket 3. Part of 19 known combos, one of them two-card. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Game Changer
- On the official list — none allowed in brackets 1–2, at most three in bracket 3.
- Printing
- Rare · VIS · #72
- Cheapest printing
- €26.71
- EDHREC salt
- 1.60
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — counts toward 3 Game Changers: Counts toward the 3 Game Changers allowed
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- On the official Game Changers list
- Nonland tutor, two at most in brackets 1–2 and four in bracket 3 (Lotus Vault house cap)
- Two-card combo with Approach of the Second Sun (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
19 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Approach of the Second Sun + Vampiric Tutor
Produces: Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Conspicuous Snoop + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Vampiric Tutor
Produces: Infinite creature tokens with haste, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Spellbinder + Beacon of Tomorrows + Vampiric Tutor
Produces: Near-infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2016-06-08 · Wizards of the Coast
The "shuffle and put the card on top" is a single action. If an effect causes the top card of the library to be face up, the second card down is not revealed.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast