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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor

{3} {B} {1} {B} · Creature — Vampire Warlock // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
213
Decks Running
97
In Decks
637
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format

Final zone distribution

60 instances
1.7%
Library
35.0%
Battlefield
31.7%
Graveyard
1.7%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 90 players
Brought to game
213
Ever drawn
57
Reached battlefield
39
Still on board at game end
21

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=37) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=144).

Observed gap +25.4pp; 95% confidence interval +8.9pp to +41.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39
0%
T1
3%
T2
5%
T3
23%
T4
10%
T5
46%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 7 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 31% (9 / 39 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%
39 of 100 times cast 39%

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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.