Live Play Data

Diabolic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Anthology (CMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2979

Decks Running

1279

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=389

14%

13%

48%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 21% (53 / 389 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

2981 brought · 1024 players

Brought to game

2981

Ever drawn

652

Reached battlefield

389

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=357) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1913).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=231).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

745 instances

2.4%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

58.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 55 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 40 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 39 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 26 decks
5 Child of Alara 23 decks
6 Marrow-Gnawer 19 decks
7 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 19 decks
8 The Wandering Minstrel 17 decks
9 Edgar Markov 15 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks

Card text

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

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

Commander Anthology (CMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.