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Demonic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

2678

Decks Running

1388

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

579 instances

3.3%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

66.0%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 53 decks
2 Edgar Markov 51 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 35 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 23 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 21 decks
6 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 20 decks
7 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 20 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 19 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 18 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 16 decks

The "good card" funnel

2681 brought · 869 players

Brought to game

2681

Ever drawn

508

Reached battlefield

399

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=327) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1608).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=84) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=399

12%

14%

15%

12%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 27% (57 / 399 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

2746 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.