Live Play Data

Sylvan Tutor

· Sorcery · Masters Edition IV (ME4)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

665

Decks Running

255

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=96

17%

13%

14%

15%

11%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 17% (16 / 96 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

665 brought · 222 players

Brought to game

665

Ever drawn

144

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=87) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=43).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

159 instances

4.4%

Library

0.6%

Battlefield

67.9%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 19 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 11 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 9 decks
4 Flubs, the Fool 9 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 8 decks
6 Animar, Soul of Elements 6 decks
7 Baylen, the Haymaker 5 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 5 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 4 decks
10 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.