Diabolic Revelation Sees Nearly 2000% Price Spike

Diabolic Revelation | Art by Raymond Swanland

As of Tuesday, April 28th, 2026, the Magic 2013 card Diabolic Revelation has spiked by approximately 1940%. This is relative to its pre-spike price at the end of March of $1.19 ($1.08 market). Why has this mana-hungry multitutor become the apparent talk of the town in Magic finance? And is this spike just a flash in the pan? Read on, and we'll explain!

Diabolic Revelation: Diabolically Consistent (Until Now)

For many cards, spikes occur because of a public shift in something major, more than a unique realization of a card's overall viability. As a result, most cards that spike also don't spike for a remarkably long time, if at all. Diabolic Revelation is one such case. Originally printed in Magic 2013, a Core Set focused primarily on the story of the Planeswalker known as Nicol Bolas, the focus of the set may have stymied the initial trending of cards not revolving around the egotistical Elder Dragon.

As a result, Diabolic Revelation started out of the gate at its all-time low price of $0.44. There are other reasons for this, including its mana cost. is a lot to invest into a spell, especially if it doesn't close out the game on its own (as tutors are apt not to do). Put another way, casting Diabolic Revelation for six mana only gets a player one singular card, in a vacuum situation. That's a horrendous rate when Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and even Diabolic Tutor all exist at better rates.

Casting it for seven mana gets you two cards, which is only very slightly better than casting two Diabolic Tutors. You'd need to cast it for ten mana to match the rate of casting multiple copies of Demonic Tutor for the same number of cards. And finally, because of the mana investment needed at all, someone casting Diabolic Revelation will never match the rates that Vampiric Tutor grants. Sure, the cards go to hand rather than the top of the library, but it's still a boatload of mana.

It's things like this that have kept this spell from spiking past the $1.19 price mentioned earlier in this article... until now.

Enter the Dragon

It's kind of funny in a ha-ha sort of way, but it took an entirely different Elder Dragon to allow Diabolic Revelation to flourish. See, this card spiked largely because of the reveal of Witherbloom, the Balancer. A new card from Secrets of Strixhaven, Witherbloom gives all of a player's cast instant and sorcery spells affinity for creatures. That's largely all it does, but it's all Witherbloom needs to do. What an ability!

At least one other card has notably spiked because of Witherbloom: Sprout Swarm. This card provides a single Saproling token for , but has not only convoke but also buyback for . This card can quickly maintain an infinite-creature engine with Witherbloom out. Sprout Swarm is right now sitting pretty at a cool $4.99.

So, suffice it to say, Witherbloom has done a number on the market for that card and any card that can capitalize on its affinity-granting ability. In other words, Diabolic Revelation's whole bag.

A Flash in the Pan?

It's unclear whether Diabolic Revelation will lower in price, save for an especially cool Secret Lair reprint or a new printing in another set or bonus sheet. That obviously remains to be seen at this time, but for now, with only one printing, the card is likely to retain its new value for a while.

However, we've seen this story before, and like with those other stories, there's another side. If Witherbloom, the Balancer loses its luster in the public eye, whether through overall lack of use, some out-of-nowhere ban/promotion to the Game Changers list, or if some other card outshines it, Diabolic Revelation will probably lower in usage and price as well. Granted, this theoretical slump in value will not let it reach the sub-$2 value it once had, so I'm pretty confident in saying this particular spike is largely here to stay.

Conclusion

Many other cards have spiked as a likely result of Secrets of Strixhaven, but we'll save those for their own articles. In the meantime, let's open the floor to you, dear readers! Did you snag a few copies of Diabolic Revelation before they spiked? Are you going to use them in your decks or flip them for added monetary value? Sound off in the comments below!