Live Play Data

Demonic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

19%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5658

Decks Running

2650

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1001

14%

15%

13%

12%

31%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 20% (139 / 1002 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

5666 brought · 1530 players

Brought to game

5666

Ever drawn

1308

Reached battlefield

1001

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=885) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=3424).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=255).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1503 instances

2.9%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

66.1%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.