Demonic Consultation
Demonic Consultation: Instant, Ice Age. Choose a card name. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age (ICE)
- Released
- 1995-06-03
- Collector number
- 121
- Artist
- Rob Alexander
- Commander rank
- 870 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Demonic Consultation
Demonic Consultation is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon black instant from Ice Age (ICE), an expansion set released in June 1995. It is collector number 121 in that set, with art by Rob Alexander. It costs {B} (one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It is banned in Legacy and Premodern. It is restricted in Vintage. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Ice Age (1995) to Mystery Booster 2 (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $8.09 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $8.09 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Demonic Consultation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Banned |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Restricted |
| Premodern | Banned |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Demonic Consultation
Demonic Consultation has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #31 | Rare | 2025 |
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #4 | Rare | 2025 |
| Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #181 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1127 | Rare | 2022 |
| Masters Edition II (ME2) #85 | Uncommon | 2008 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Demonic Consultation, newest first.
- You don't name a card until Demonic Consultation resolves.
- If you don't reveal the named card (perhaps because it was in the top six cards of your library), you'll end up exiling your entire library. You don't lose the game at that point, but will lose the next time you're instructed to draw a card.
- There is no way to make this card affect your opponent. It affects "you", and "you" means the controller of the spell. It has no targets.
- You must name a card that actually exists in the game of Magic.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.