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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor

· Creature — Vampire Warlock // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

328

Decks Running

150

In Decks

956

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Emeritus of Woe

Creature — Vampire Warlock

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

5 / 4

Demonic Tutor

Sorcery

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

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jodie Muir

Final zone distribution

93 instances

2.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 13 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 11 decks
3 Dina, Essence Brewer 6 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 6 decks
5 Teval, the Balanced Scale 4 decks
6 Teysa Karlov 4 decks
7 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks
8 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 3 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
10 Shadow the Hedgehog 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

328 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

328

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=53) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=198).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=21) — 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 +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +9.7pp to +37.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=61

18%

15%

46%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 30% (11 / 61 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

61 of 100 times cast 61%

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.