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Sylvan Tutor

· Sorcery · Masters Edition IV (ME4)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

265

Decks Running

114

In Decks

615

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

65 instances

6.2%

Library

67.7%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

18.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 5 decks
2 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 5 decks
3 Ureni of the Unwritten 5 decks
4 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 4 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 3 decks
7 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 2 decks
8 Animar, Soul of Elements 2 decks
9 Arcades, the Strategist 2 decks
10 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

265 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

265

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=29) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=179).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +32.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

12%

18%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 15% (5 / 33 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 60%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.