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Grim Tutor

· Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)

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Times Brought

1581

Decks Running

720

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

365 instances

3.8%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

59.7%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 45 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 36 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 35 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 21 decks
5 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 18 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 17 decks
7 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 16 decks
8 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 14 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 14 decks
10 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1581 brought · 581 players

Brought to game

1581

Ever drawn

318

Reached battlefield

204

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=151) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=824).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=75).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=204

13%

11%

17%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 18% (27 / 204 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.