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Grim Tutor

· Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)

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Times Brought

410

Decks Running

224

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

97 instances

5.2%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

58.8%

Graveyard

13.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 22 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 14 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 14 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 5 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 4 decks
7 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 4 decks
8 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 4 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 3 decks
10 Child of Alara 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

410 brought · 201 players

Brought to game

410

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=46) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=213).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=21).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

11%

13%

20%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 28% (7 / 54 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.