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Demonic Consultation
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uncommon
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.
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A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Exile-based card advantage — exile cards from the top of your library and cast them temporarily. Red's primary draw mechanic.
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card they discard. See rule 702.35, “Madness.”
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.
Searches your library for a specific card. Named after Demonic Tutor. Excludes land search (that's ramp).
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Printings (6)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Countdown#4 | rare | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Countdown#31 | rare | · | · | · |
| Mystery Booster 2#181 | uncommon | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Drop#1127 | rare | · | · | · |
| Masters Edition II#85 | uncommon | · | · | · |
| Ice Age#121 | uncommon | · | · | · |
Related Rules
After resolving a madness triggered ability (see rule 702.35), if the exiled card wasn’t cast and was moved to a public zone, effects referencing the discarded card can find that object.
Madness
Madness is a keyword that represents two abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with madness is in a player’s hand. The second is a triggered ability that functions when the first ability is applied. “Madness [cost]” means “If a player would discard this card, that player discards it, but exiles it instead of putting it into their graveyard” and “When this card is exiled this way, its owner may cast it by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost. If that player doesn’t, they put this card into their graveyard.”
Casting a spell using its madness ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.
After resolving a madness triggered ability, if the exiled card wasn’t cast and was moved to a public zone, effects referencing the discarded card can find that card. See rule 400.7k.
Rulings
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.
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.