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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor

{3} {B} {1} {B} · Creature — Vampire Warlock // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
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Times Brought
233
Decks Running
127
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor card

Emeritus of Woe

{3} {B}
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

{1} {B}
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

48 instances
2.1%
Library
50.0%
Battlefield
18.8%
Graveyard
8.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

233 brought · 117 players
Brought to game
233
Ever drawn
46
Reached battlefield
35
Still on board at game end
24

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=30) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=139).

Observed gap +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35
0%
T1
6%
T2
9%
T3
11%
T4
14%
T5
57%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 26% (4 / 35 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%
35 of 100 times cast 35%

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.