Demonic Counsel, while flavored like Demonic Tutor, requires a bit of extra work to get the game breaking benefit of searching your library for a card.You do need to have Delirium (4 different Card types in your Graveyard) to be able to search what you need akin to Traverse the Ulvenwald.Delirium can be hard to activate, even if youre running fetchlands, a mix of permanent types and some Instants and Sorceries
That alone would make him playable
It might have sideboard potential against decks with tons of death triggers or a graveyard theme, but the impact is nothing when it hits the board
Creatures (16) Lands (20) Spells (24) 4 Duress 4 Sarcomancy 4 Dark Ritual 3 Unmask 4 Demonic Consultation 1 Spinning Darkness 1 Kaervek's Spite 3 Hatred Sideboard Turn 1 Swamp, Carnophage or Sarcomancy
Because there are so many, we've split this list into two parts, and this is Part 1, and it will take us through numbers 161 to 50