Live Play Data

Grim Tutor

· Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2576

Decks Running

1051

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=370

17%

11%

15%

42%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 21% (63 / 370 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

2576 brought · 829 players

Brought to game

2576

Ever drawn

552

Reached battlefield

370

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=333) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1657).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=146).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

636 instances

3.5%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

60.1%

Graveyard

11.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 53 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 46 decks
3 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 26 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 24 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 24 decks
6 The Wandering Minstrel 20 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 19 decks
8 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 15 decks
9 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 14 decks
10 Marrow-Gnawer 14 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.