Live Play Data

Demonic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

19%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

15289

Decks Running

6115

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2689

15%

14%

13%

12%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 34

On curve 17% (412 / 2689 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

15304 brought · 3176 players

Brought to game

15304

Ever drawn

3542

Reached battlefield

2689

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=2566) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=10280).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=782).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

4039 instances

2.8%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

67.7%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 151 decks
2 Edgar Markov 140 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 129 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 88 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 70 decks
6 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 67 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 60 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 59 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 58 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 58 decks

Card text

Demonic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Zack Stella

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.