Live Play Data

Grim Tutor

· Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1819

Decks Running

809

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=256

16%

10%

15%

39%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 26% (40 / 256 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1819 brought · 664 players

Brought to game

1819

Ever drawn

381

Reached battlefield

256

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=231) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=100).

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 +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

445 instances

2.7%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

60.7%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 47 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 39 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 22 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 21 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 19 decks
6 The Wandering Minstrel 16 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 12 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 12 decks
9 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 12 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 11 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.