Live Play Data

Grim Tutor

· Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

465

Decks Running

265

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=69

14%

12%

10%

41%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 26% (10 / 69 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

465 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

465

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=65) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=26).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

112 instances

1.8%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

59.8%

Graveyard

15.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 19 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 13 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
4 Marrow-Gnawer 7 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 6 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 6 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 5 decks
8 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 5 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 5 decks
10 The Wandering Minstrel 5 decks

Card text

Grim Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Core Set 2021 (M21) · Mythic · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.