Best Mono-Black budget alternatives to Cruel Tutor
Cruel Tutor
$43.75 MarketCard Breakdown: Cruel Tutor (Sorcery) is a high-demand MTG card. At $43.75, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve similar game actions for under $5.00.
Top Vector-Ranked Budget Swaps
Diabolic Tutor
(Sorcery)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Matches Cruel Tutor's Sorcery card type and costs 1 more mana to cast (4 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #tutor-card.
Doomsday
(Sorcery)
Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Matches Cruel Tutor's Sorcery card type and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #life-payment, #tutor-card, #tutor-to-top.
Rhystic Tutor
(Sorcery)
Unless any player pays {2}, search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Matches Cruel Tutor's Sorcery card type and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #tutor-card.
Demonic Bargain
(Sorcery)
Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Matches Cruel Tutor's Sorcery card type and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #tutor-card.
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