Live Play Data

Idyllic Tutor

· Sorcery · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1950

Decks Running

868

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=302

12%

16%

44%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 17% (36 / 302 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1950 brought · 693 players

Brought to game

1950

Ever drawn

466

Reached battlefield

302

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=279) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1259).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=153).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

519 instances

3.5%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

61.1%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Whtz, the Bibliophile 41 decks
2 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 37 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 30 decks
4 Sythis, Harvest's Hand 26 decks
5 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 25 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 21 decks
7 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 16 decks
8 Giada, Font of Hope 14 decks
9 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 12 decks
10 Tuvasa the Sunlit 12 decks

Card text

Idyllic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

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.