Live Play Data

Diabolic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Anthology (CMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2211

Decks Running

1033

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=273

14%

15%

45%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 24% (39 / 273 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

2213 brought · 853 players

Brought to game

2213

Ever drawn

468

Reached battlefield

273

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=250) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1427).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=172).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

538 instances

2.4%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

57.8%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 51 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 36 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 33 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 20 decks
5 Child of Alara 18 decks
6 Marrow-Gnawer 16 decks
7 The Wandering Minstrel 14 decks
8 Edgar Markov 13 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 13 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 12 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.