Live Play Data

Demonic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

19%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

8401

Decks Running

3764

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1475

15%

14%

12%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 20% (214 / 1475 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

8411 brought · 2095 players

Brought to game

8411

Ever drawn

1936

Reached battlefield

1475

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=1328) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=5280).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=393).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.0pp to +11.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2200 instances

2.9%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

67.5%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 101 decks
2 Edgar Markov 97 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 87 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 59 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 43 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 40 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 40 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 39 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 39 decks
10 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 38 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.