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Vampiric Tutor

· Instant · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

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Times Brought

1678

Decks Running

846

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

Final zone distribution

392 instances

2.3%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

64.3%

Graveyard

12.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 36 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 20 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 20 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 18 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 17 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 16 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks
8 The Ur-Dragon 13 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 12 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1679 brought · 551 players

Brought to game

1679

Ever drawn

347

Reached battlefield

259

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=208) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1001).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=68) — 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 +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=259

14%

11%

14%

15%

13%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 14% (36 / 259 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

1657 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.