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Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor

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

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Times Brought

743

Decks Running

365

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

177 instances

2.8%

Library

42.4%

Battlefield

21.5%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 33 decks
2 Codie, Ravenous Codex 22 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 20 decks
4 Dina, Essence Brewer 9 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 8 decks
6 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 7 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 7 decks
8 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 7 decks
9 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 5 decks
10 Kess, Dissident Mage 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

743 brought · 325 players

Brought to game

743

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=92) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=424).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=45).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=110

13%

15%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 31% (14 / 110 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.