Live Play Data

Diabolic Tutor

· Sorcery · Commander Anthology (CMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1165

Decks Running

615

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=145

16%

15%

46%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 23% (23 / 145 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1167 brought · 524 players

Brought to game

1167

Ever drawn

257

Reached battlefield

145

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=134) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=730).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=98).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

295 instances

2.0%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

58.0%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 30 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 24 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 23 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 12 decks
5 Child of Alara 10 decks
6 Edgar Markov 10 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 10 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 9 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 9 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 8 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.