Live Play Data

Sylvan Tutor

· Sorcery · Masters Edition IV (ME4)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

944

Decks Running

344

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=135

19%

11%

13%

14%

10%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 19% (26 / 135 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

944 brought · 286 players

Brought to game

944

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

135

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=122) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=617).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=56).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

224 instances

5.4%

Library

0.9%

Battlefield

66.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 27 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 14 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 13 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 11 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 10 decks
6 Animar, Soul of Elements 7 decks
7 Baylen, the Haymaker 7 decks
8 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 7 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 6 decks
10 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 5 decks

Card text

Sylvan Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Masters Edition IV (ME4) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kaja Foglio

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.