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Part of Secrets of Strixhaven
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Instant
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Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
Live Play Data
Vampiric Tutor
14%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
6473
Decks Running
2926
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
First-cast turn
n=1070
14%
T1
11%
T2
10%
T3
11%
T4
14%
T5
33%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
20
On curve
14%
(150 / 1070 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
45%
The "good card" funnel
6476 brought · 1724 playersBrought to game
6476
Ever drawn
1490
Reached battlefield
1070
Still on board at game end
35
≥ +3.0pp
Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=965) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=4034).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=369).
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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
1712 instances3.2%
Library
2.0%
Battlefield
65.0%
Graveyard
11.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Edgar Markov
106 decks
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2
Kaalia of the Vast
56 decks
-
3
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
55 decks
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4
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
45 decks
-
5
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
43 decks
-
6
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
38 decks
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7
The Ur-Dragon
36 decks
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8
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
35 decks
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9
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
34 decks
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10
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
34 decks
Card text
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Raymond Swanland
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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.