MTG Tutors By color

What are the best MTG tutors?

The best MTG tutors are the ones players actually reach for, and a handful of those measurably raise your win rate. The lists below rank every mono-color and colorless tutor in Magic: The Gathering by how many tracked Commander decks run it, counted from real games on Playgroup.gg. Where a card has been played enough for us to measure its effect on winning, and that effect is clearly positive, its win-rate lift is shown beside the count.

Deck counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

Lists last computed 3 Sep 2026 from decks and games tracked on Playgroup.gg.

Tutors by color

Black Tutors

Black is the color that searches for any card at all, and it charges for it in life, in cards, or in both.

11,535

Decks running Demonic Tutor

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Demonic Tutor +1.8% win rate · 19,705 games with it · 2181 pilots · 702 commander groups	11,535	+1.8%
2	Vampiric Tutor +1.4% win rate · 14,997 games with it · 1651 pilots · 575 commander groups	8,773	+1.4%
3	Diabolic Intent +1.5% win rate · 8,277 games with it · 1087 pilots · 371 commander groups	4,758	+1.5%
4	Entomb +1.2% win rate · 7,749 games with it · 1009 pilots · 299 commander groups	4,088	+1.2%
5	Buried Alive	4,060	—
6	Diabolic Tutor	3,284	—
7	Imperial Seal	2,810	—
8	Wishclaw Talisman	2,629	—
9	Opposition Agent	2,602	—
10	Grim Tutor +1.1% win rate · 3,512 games with it · 426 pilots · 211 commander groups	2,273	+1.1%

See the full black tutor list

White Tutors

White searches by card type rather than for anything at all: enchantments, artifacts, and creatures with a keyword or a small enough cost.

8,221

Decks running Enlightened Tutor

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Enlightened Tutor +0.1% win rate · 15,297 games with it · 1710 pilots · 634 commander groups	8,221	+0.1%
2	Open the Armory	2,713	—
3	Idyllic Tutor	2,329	—
4	Steelshaper's Gift	2,126	—
5	Stoneforge Mystic +0.7% win rate · 3,283 games with it · 518 pilots · 126 commander groups	1,919	+0.7%
6	Ranger-Captain of Eos	1,898	—
7	Recruiter of the Guard	1,595	—
8	Cloud, Midgar Mercenary +1.1% win rate · 2,593 games with it · 413 pilots · 81 commander groups	1,446	+1.1%
9	Moon-Blessed Cleric	1,093	—
10	Alisaie Leveilleur	981	—

See the full white tutor list

Blue Tutors

Blue searches cheaply and often at instant speed, but usually puts the card on top of your library instead of into your hand.

6,161

Decks running Mystical Tutor

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Mystical Tutor +0.9% win rate · 10,973 games with it · 1295 pilots · 458 commander groups	6,161	+0.9%
2	Fabricate	3,208	—
3	Muddle the Mixture	2,137	—
4	Solve the Equation	1,852	—
5	Whir of Invention	1,445	—
6	Spellseeker	1,341	—
7	Gifts Ungiven +1.5% win rate · 2,778 games with it · 270 pilots · 164 commander groups	1,093	+1.5%
8	Tezzeret the Seeker +0.9% win rate · 2,042 games with it · 250 pilots · 94 commander groups	1,066	+0.9%
9	Alphinaud Leveilleur	934	—
10	Tribute Mage	934	—

See the full blue tutor list

Green Tutors

Green tutors for creatures better than any other color. Its other searching is mostly for lands, which these lists leave out.

6,634

Decks running Worldly Tutor

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Worldly Tutor +0.3% win rate · 12,588 games with it · 1411 pilots · 536 commander groups	6,634	+0.3%
2	Finale of Devastation	4,855	—
3	Green Sun's Zenith	3,043	—
4	Chord of Calling	2,938	—
5	Nature's Rhythm	1,915	—
6	Formidable Speaker +1.1% win rate · 3,358 games with it · 438 pilots · 167 commander groups	1,896	+1.1%
7	Eldritch Evolution	1,872	—
8	Defense of the Heart +0.2% win rate · 4,093 games with it · 484 pilots · 243 commander groups	1,850	+0.2%
9	Natural Order	1,509	—
10	Fauna Shaman	1,453	—

See the full green tutor list

Red Tutors

Red rarely searches without a string attached: exiling the rest of what it found, discarding your hand, or handing an opponent the choice.

5,002

Decks running Gamble

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Gamble	5,002	—
2	Imperial Recruiter	2,196	—
3	Goblin Engineer +0.5% win rate · 2,961 games with it · 441 pilots · 134 commander groups	1,727	+0.5%
4	Magda, Brazen Outlaw	1,612	—
5	Goblin Matron	1,541	—
6	Goblin Recruiter	814	—
7	Cool but Rude	776	—
8	Reckless Handling	645	—
9	Sarkhan's Triumph	589	—
10	Godo, Bandit Warlord	548	—

See the full red tutor list

How these tutor lists are built

Start with what the order means, because it shapes everything else on this page. These lists are ranked by how many tracked decks run each card, not by a rating and not by the measurement. Separately we compare decks that run a card against decks on the same commander that do not, pool those matched comparisons, and ask whether the difference is bigger than chance. Only a handful of cards clear that bar. The rest are played widely and honestly, and we cannot tell you they help.

That is why the lists are ordered by deck count rather than by the measurement. Sorting a list by a number whose confidence interval crosses zero for most of its rows would be ranking sampling error and calling it insight. Deck count is a smaller claim, but it is one the data can actually carry, and it answers the question people arrive with: which tutors do Commander players put in their decks?

The win-rate lift is therefore a marker, not the ranking. It appears beside a card only when that card has been played enough to judge and its measured effect is clearly positive, which means clearing minimums on games with the card, on how many separate commander groups it was seen in and on how many different pilots played it, with a cap on how much of the sample any one pilot may hold, and then landing entirely above zero. A card that was measured and came out flat gets an empty cell rather than a number near zero, because a number near zero reads as a verdict and this one is not.

Read that figure as a difference, not a multiplier. A +2.2% lift means a deck running the card wins 2.2 percentage points more often than decks on the same commander without it: 27.2% of its games rather than 25.0%. It is not a 2.2% relative increase, and it is not a claim that the card wins 2.2% of your games on its own.

The candidate pool is every Commander-legal card carrying Scryfall's tutor oracle tag, which is a human-curated tag rather than a text search, minus the cards whose only search is for lands. That exclusion is the reason Cultivate, Farseek and Evolving Wilds are absent: they search a library, but nobody calls them tutors, and leaving them in would bury the cards you came here for. Multicolor cards are left out on purpose too, because someone searching for black tutors wants mono-black cards they can put in any black deck rather than gold cards that need a second color. Each surviving card is counted across every non-archived tracked deck whose mainboard contains it.

Counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

The tutor oracle tag comes from Scryfall and popularity across public decklists is answered better by EDHREC than by us. What we add is the count from decks that were actually played, and the measured effect on winning where there is one to report.

Counted from decks and games tracked on Playgroup.gg. Every card name links to its full stat page.