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Vampiric Tutor

· Instant · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

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Times Brought

5858

Decks Running

2680

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

1296 instances

2.9%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

66.0%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 106 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 68 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 63 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 48 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 47 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 47 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 42 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 37 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 37 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 33 decks

The "good card" funnel

5861 brought · 1632 players

Brought to game

5861

Ever drawn

1150

Reached battlefield

864

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=662) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=3369).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=201).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +4.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=864

20%

12%

11%

12%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 20% (170 / 864 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.